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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurotomella%20cuspidata | Pleurotomella cuspidata is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Description
Distribution
Fossils of this marine species were found off Victoria, Australia.
References
Chapple, E. H. "Additions to the Tertiary Mollusca of Victoria." Mem. National Mus. Melbourne 8 (1934): 162–165.
External links
Beu, A.G. 2011 Marine Molluscs of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 41, 1–153
cuspidata
Gastropods described in 1934 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman%20A.%20Avestimehr | Salman A. Avestimehr is a Dean's professor at the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Departments of University of Southern California, where he is the inaugural director of the USC-Amazon Center for Secure and Trusted Machine Learning (Trusted AI) and the director of the Information Theory and Machine Learning (vITAL) research lab. He is also the CEO and Co-Founder of FedML. Avestimehr's contributions in research and publications are in the areas of information theory, machine learning, large-scale distributed computing, and secure/private computing and learning. In particular, he is best known for deterministic approximation approaches to network information theory and coded computing. He was a general co-chair of the 2020 International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), and is a Fellow of IEEE. He is also co-authors of four books titled “An Approximation Approach to Network Information Theory”, “Multihop Wireless Networks: A Unified Approach to Relaying and Interference Management”, “Coded Computing”, and “Problem Solving Strategies for Elementary-School Math.”
Education
Avestimehr completed his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2003. He received his M.S. degree in 2005 in electrical engineering and computer science from University of California, Berkeley in 2005. Continuing his studies at UC Berkeley, he finished his Ph.D. in computer science in 2008; his doctoral adviser was David Tse.
Career and research
Avestimehr was a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) at Caltech in 2008. He served as an assistant professor at the school of electrical and computer engineering of Cornell University from 2009 to 2013. Avestimehr was promoted to a Dean's professorship in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Southern California, where he has taught since 2013. He is also the inaugural director of the USC-Amazon Center for Secure and Trusted Machine Learning. He has been a general co-chair of the 2020 International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). He has also been an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Current research areas of Prof. Avestimehr include information theory, distributed computing, machine learning, and secure and private learning/computing.
Awards and honors
2020. IEEE Fellow
2019. IEEE Information Theory Society James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award
2015. The Okawa Foundation Award
2013. IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
2011. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, 2011)
2010. National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Bibliography
“An Approximation Approach to Network Information Theory,” by A. S. Avestimehr, S. Diggavi, C. Tian and D. Tse, Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory, 2015.
“Multihop Wireless Networks: A Unified Approach to Relaying and Interference Management, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart%20Johnston | Stewart Christopher Johnston (born February 26, 1971) is a Canadian businessman and the current president of The Sports Network and Bell Media Media Sales and Marketing.
Early life
Johnston was born in Toronto, Ontario. He moved to Ottawa soon after where he grew up. Johnston attended Ashbury College in Ottawa for his high school years and graduated from there. He described himself as a 'sports junkie' when he was young. For university, Johnston attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and studied for a year at the University of British Columbia. He graduated from Queen's with an Honours Business Degree.
Career
Johnston started working as an intern at TSN in 1997. He worked his way up the ranks and was promoted to Vice President of Programming in 2006. In 2010, he was made President. In 2014, Johnston added TSN3, TSN4, TSN5 to TSN's list of networks. He described it as an "important evolution" for the network, as it would allow TSN to make more efficient use of its portfolio of sports properties, by showing more sports games on at the same time to satisfy the people and the company.
In 2019, Johnston was ranked #48 in The Hockey News' 'Top 100 People of Power and Influence.' In November, he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
References
1971 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Ottawa
Businesspeople from Toronto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Sex | "Cyber Sex" is a song by American rapper and singer Doja Cat. It was released alongside a music video through Kemosabe and RCA Records on November 7, 2019, as the fourth single from her second studio album Hot Pink, which was released on the same day. Written by Doja Cat, Yeti Beats and Lydia Asrat, the song was also produced by Kool Kojak alongside Tizhimself. It features "90s-esque synth-heavy bubblegum raps".
In the music video, Doja Cat stars as a webcam model who becomes an engineer and genetically develops her ideal sexual partner. The song was popularized by internet meme personality "Queen of Brooklyn" on social media sites such as Twitter and TikTok. It was later certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in late November 2020.
Music video
On November 7, 2019, a music video was released alongside the song. The video was directed by Jack Begert, produced by Psycho Films—including executive producer Sam Canter and producer Geenah Krisht—and commissioned by Sam Houston.
Live performance
Doja Cat was a musical guest at the 37th annual AVN Awards on January 25, 2020, where she performed "Cyber Sex" as well as "Juicy" in a nude mesh bodysuit with rhinestones covering and highlighting her nipples, butt, and pubic hair. Nylon magazine complimented the outfit calling it, "truly unforgettable".
Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from Hot Pink liner notes.
Recording
Recorded at The Hive & Gold Diggers’ Studios (Los Angeles, California)
Mixed at Larrabee Sound Studios (North Hollywood, California)
Mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Hollywood, California)
Personnel
Doja Cat – vocals, songwriting
Tizhimself – songwriting, production
Kool Kojak – songwriting, production
Lydia Asrat – songwriting
David Sprecher – songwriting
Rian Lewis – recording
MacGregor Leo – recording
Jaycen Joshua – mixing
Mike Seaberg – assistant mixing
DJ Riggins – assistant mixing
Mike Bozzi – mastering
Charts
Certifications
References
2019 singles
2019 songs
Doja Cat songs
Songs written by Yeti Beats
Songs written by Doja Cat
Songs written by Kool Kojak
Song recordings produced by Kool Kojak |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin%27y%C5%8D%20Ika-sh%C5%AB | Gin'yō Ika-shū (銀葉夷歌集) is a Japanese kyōka anthology in five volumes.
Compiler and date
Gin'yō Ika-shū, an anthology of kyōka poetry, was compiled by Seihakudō Gyōfū (生白 堂行風) and first printed in the second month of Enpō 7 (1679) by Iseya San'uemon (伊勢屋山右衛門) in Osaka.
Title
Gin'yō Ika-shū was Gyōfū's third collection, following Kokin Ikyoku-shū and Gosen Ikyoku-shū. The names of these earlier two works are derived from the first two imperial anthologies of waka poetry, the Kokin Waka-shū and Gosen Waka-shū, and so it appears Gyōfū intended to follow this pattern in calling this work the Kin'yō Ikyoku-shū (金葉夷曲集) after the Kin'yō Waka-shū, but for whatever reason he changed his mind, with both the preface (序題) and title page (内題) showing signs of having been amended to the present title.
Contents
The collection contains roughly 1,000 kyōka, in ten volumes. The volumes' topics are, respectively, "Spring", "Summer", "Autumn", "Winter", "Felicitations (and Shinto)", "Partings (and Travel)", "Love", "Miscellaneous I (Names of Things and Acrostic Poetry)", "Miscellaneous II", and "Buddhism".
References
Citations
Works cited
17th-century poetry
Edo-period works
Waka (poetry)
Japanese poetry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget%20Boakye | Bridget Boakye is a Ghanaian entrepreneur, data scientist and writer. She co-founded TalentsinAfrica, one of Africa's fastest-growing skills accelerator and recruitment platforms. Her company was among the top 20 companies selected in October 2019 for the Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Her company also emerged as one of the top three start-up companies at the Oxford University Africa Innovation Fair.
Early years and education
Bridget was born and raised in Ghana. She moved to the United States to live with her parents when she was ten years old and completed her tertiary education at Swarthmore College, graduating with a bachelor's degree in economics.
Works
After completing her tertiary education at Swarthmore College, she worked in development and education before moving to Ghana.
She was an editor at She Leads Africa where she mostly debated on African history, women, economics and entrepreneurship. In Ghana, she co-founded TalentsinAfrica and ChaleKasa. TalentsinAfrica is an AI-backed recruitment platform democratizing access to opportunity for young Africans, while ChaleKasa is a bespoke events company curating experiences to connect Diasporans and Africans. She is also the co-founder of the Women's Corner GH and the strategist for Africans on China.
Recognitions
She is an Amplify Africa Fellow
She is a member of the Global Shapers Accra Hub.
She was named a Frank 5 Fellow of Swarthmore College, 2018–2019
Hamambe Alliance Entrepreneur Associate, 2019
Philanthropy
During her 27th birthday, Bridget collaborated with Crowdfrica.org to create Bridget Gives @ 27, a fund raising project which she used to help raise $2,000 from her friends and family in support of providing healthcare to the people of Ohua Ghana.
References
Living people
Data scientists
Ghanaian businesspeople
Ghanaian women writers
Swarthmore College alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Bowie%3A%20Sound%20and%20Vision%20%28documentary%29 | David Bowie: Sound and Vision is a 2002 documentary film about the English musician, made by the American television network A&E for their long running documentary television series and media franchise Biography. It was first broadcast on A&E on 4 November 2002. It was released as a DVD the following year.
After the BBC's Omnibus produced Cracked Actor (1975), and the self-produced Ricochet (1984) and Black Tie White Noise (1993), the film is the fourth official music documentary sanctioned by David Bowie. While there are major differences in the format of these three previous films, their common trait is that they focus upon Bowie at the time in which the film is being made; David Bowie: Sound and Vision was rather the first full career (so-far, at time of release) retrospective biography. It was produced during 2002 as Bowie was completing and releasing the album Heathen.
Background
Biography is an American documentary television series and media franchise created in the early 1960s by David Wolper. Each episode depicts the life of a notable person with narration, on-camera interviews, photographs, and stock footage. The show originally ran in syndication in 1962–1964, on CBS in 1979, on A&E from 1987. In 2002 the series made an episode on Bowie, who had just completed his album Heathen, and was preparing for its release. While Bowie did not take part in the documentary in any way, he endorsed the programme, and his wife Iman and many of his friends and collaborators were filmed being interviewed. Narration was provided by the Welsh actor Jonathan Pryce from a script by director Rick Hull. The programme was released on DVD the following year, dropping the series title Biography.
Bowie: Sound & Vision covers Bowie’s life from his birth in 1947 to 2002. It includes interview footage previously filmed from many periods of Bowie's career, from an interview with his band The Manish Boys (when still called David Jones) in 1964, to an interview recorded in 1999 around the time of the hours... album. There is also footage taken from live performances, music videos and Bowie's film acting. The interviews include childhood friends, music collaborators and producers.
Reception
Reviewing the documentary in 2019, Albumism wrote: ‘A thorough primer on the late great Bowie’s career progression and the bold, brave transformations that defined his musical repertoire and public persona through the release of 2002’s Heathen. Nicolas Pegg, author of The Complete David Bowie, writes on the film: 'Despite a few gaps and inexactitudes it's a good solid account of Bowie's career' with a 'wealth of rare archive material'.
Rerelease
The DVD was rereleased in 2013 remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1.
Content
The DVD release is organised into ten named chapters, which follows the original fade-outs for advertising breaks during television transmission. Interviews with everyone except Bowie were filmed for the documentary. Interviews with Bowie are archive footage from |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%20in%20amphibian%20paleontology |
New taxa
Research
A study on changes of the skeletal anatomy of the pelvic and pectoral appendages during the transition from fins to limbs in vertebrate evolution, as indicated by data from fossil lobe-finned fishes and early tetrapods, is published by Esteve-Altava et al. (2019).
An outline of a new interpretative scenario for the origin of tetrapods, based on data from tetrapod body fossils and from putative tetrapod trace fossils from Poland and Ireland that predate earliest tetrapod body fossils, is presented by Ahlberg (2019).
A historical review of the fossil record of Devonian tetrapods and basal tetrapodomorphs from East Gondwana (Australasia, Antarctica) is published by Long, Clement & Choo (2019).
A study on the macroevolutionary dynamics of shape changes in the humeri of all major grades and clades of early tetrapods and their fish-like forerunners is published by Ruta et al. (2019).
A study on the phylogenetic relationships of early tetrapods is published by Marjanović & Laurin (2019).
A study on the anatomy of the palate and neurocranium of Whatcheeria deltae is published by Bolt & Lombard (2019).
A study on the morphology of the postcranial skeleton of Crassigyrinus scoticus is published by Herbst & Hutchinson (2019).
Herbst et al. (2019) report new evidence of bone healing in the hindlimbs of Crassigyrinus scoticus and Eoherpeton watsoni, and evaluate the implications of these findings for the knowledge of the evolution of bone healing mechanisms in early tetrapods.
Description of a new specimen of Oestocephalus from Five Points, Ohio, preserving much of the posterior braincase, is published by Pardo, Holmes & Anderson (2019), who also evaluate the implications of this specimen for inferring the phylogenetic placement of aïstopods.
A study on the holotype specimen of Acherontiscus caledoniae is published by Clack et al. (2019), who consider this taxon to be the earliest known heterodont and durophagous tetrapod.
A limb bone and a possible ilium on an early tetrapod are described from the Carboniferous (Bashkirian) Clare Shale Formation (Ireland) by Doyle & Ó Gogáin (2019), representing the oldest stratigraphically weill-constrained tetrapod skeletal fossil material from Ireland reported so far.
Description of fossils of embolomeres collected in 1915 by Walter A. Bell from the Mississippian-aged Point Edward Formation (Nova Scotia, Canada) is published online by Adams, Mann & Maddin (2019).
A study on patterns of shape and size changes of the orbits and vacuities in the skulls of temnospondyls and other early tetrapods is published by Witzmann & Ruta (2019).
A study evaluating whether the intraspecific integration of morphological traits significantly affected the evolution of the skull roof of temnospondyls over geological time is published by Pérez-Ben & Gómez (2019).
A study on patterns of ontogenetic allometry in the skull roof of temponspondyls, and on their relationship with adult morphological evolution, i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quds%20News%20Network | Quds News Network () (QNN) is a Palestinian news agency with alleged affiliations to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
QNN is popular among young Palestinian Internet users given its strong social media presence. QNN combines breaking news reporting by freelancers and volunteers with rapid distribution of often graphic video content. According to the Christian Science Monitor, the site's vast social media footprint and sharing of attack footage "has raised allegations from Israelis that Palestinian social media is helping to fuel a repeating cycle of violence."
According to QNN journalist Ahmed Yousef, "the ultimate mission of Quds News is not about business or journalism but to promote the Palestinian fight against Israel."
Blocks
In October 2019, QNN was one of more than 40 websites in the West Bank blocked by the Palestinian Authority as part of a crackdown of opposition voices and those critical of PA President Mahmoud Abbas. The move became widely known after Palestinians protested the blocks on social media and in the streets. In the same week, the block led to protests in the Gaza Strip, accusing Fatah of censorship.
Twitter subsequently suspended QNN's accounts in November 2019, as part of a broader suspension of accounts for their affiliation with Hamas or Hezbollah. On 26 January 2021, QNN tweeted that its original Twitter accounts had been restored.
In January 2021, TikTok banned QNN, stating that it was a move related to the account's content.
References
External links
News agencies based in Palestine
Palestinian news websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickson%20Interchange | Dickson Interchange is a transport interchange in Dickson, an inner-northern suburb of Canberra. The interchange allows transfers between the Canberra Metro light rail network and local ACTION bus services. As part of the construction of the Civic to Gungahlin light rail line, a new $4 million bus interchange opened in 2018. The interchange was built on land compulsorily acquired by the ACT Government in 2015, the terms of which were not disclosed to the public. Construction allowed direct access for bus and pedestrian traffic between Northbourne Avenue and Challis Street, as well as accommodation for up to nine local bus routes, a new taxi rank, kiss and ride facilities and signalised pedestrian crossings. The new facilities became an important connection point for commuters under a redesigned timetable that integrated bus and light rail services in early 2019.
Between the station's opening and February 2020, 11% of all light rail passengers boarded or alighted at Dickson Interchange, making it the busiest intermediate station on the line.
Services
The light rail platforms are located in the central median of Northbourne Avenue, while most bus services depart from a dedicated thoroughfare connecting to Cape Street. Additional shelters are provided on both sides of Northbourne Avenue to service light rail replacement buses when required.
Light rail
ACTION bus services
References
Bus stations in Australia
Bus transport in Canberra
Transport buildings and structures in the Australian Capital Territory
Light rail stations in Canberra
Transport in Canberra
Railway stations in Australia opened in 2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi/Lo%20algorithm | Hi/Lo is an algorithm and a key generation strategy used for generating unique keys for use in a database as a primary key. It uses a sequence-based hi-lo pattern to generate values. Hi/Lo is used in scenarios where an application needs its entities to have an identity prior to persistence. It is a value generation strategy. An alternative to Hi/Lo would be to generate keys as universally unique identifiers (UUID).
Explanation
The preconditions are:
There is a constant defined to hold the maximum low value. The value must be greater than zero. A suitable value could be 1000 or 32767.
There is a variable defined to hold the currently assigned high value and it is assigned the value 0 (zero).
There is a variable defined to hold the currently assigned low value and it is assigned the value of the maximum low value plus 1 (one).
The steps are:
If the currently assigned low value is greater or equal than the maximum low value then call a function to fetch a new high value and reset the currently assigned low value to 0 (zero).
Assign a key by multiplying the currently assigned high value with the maximum low value and adding the currently assigned low value.
Increment the currently assigned low value by 1 (one).
Algorithm
The (integer) and (integer) variables are internal state variables. The internal state is retained across invocations. The (integer) constant is a configuration option. get_next_hi is a function that retrieves a new high value from a database server. In a relational database management system this could be through a stored procedure.
Precondition: must be set to a value greater than zero.
algorithm generate_key is
output: key as a positive integer
if current_lo ≥ max_lo then
current_hi := get_next_hi()
current_lo := 0
key := current_hi × max_lo + current_lo
current_lo := current_lo + 1
return key
Example
Example implementation in Python.
class HiloKeyGenerator:
"""Key generator that uses a Hi/Lo algorithm.
Args:
get_next_hi: A callable function that retrieves a new high value.
max_lo: The maximum low value. Defaults to 1000.
Raises:
ValueError: If the value of max_lo is not greater than zero.
"""
def __init__(self, get_next_hi: Callable[[], int], max_lo: int = 1000) -> None:
if max_lo <= 0:
raise ValueError("max_lo must be greater than zero.")
self._current_hi = 0
self._current_lo = max_lo + 1
self._get_next_hi = get_next_hi
self._max_lo = max_lo
def generate_key(self) -> int:
"""Generate a new unique key."""
if self._current_lo >= self._max_lo:
self._current_hi = self._get_next_hi()
self._current_lo = 0
key = self._current_hi * self._max_lo + self._current_lo
self._current_lo += 1
return key
Output:
>>> def get_next_hi():
... return 2 # From database server.
...
>>> generator = HiloKeyGenerator(g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20von%20Wedemeyer%20Weller | Maria von Wedemeyer-Weller (23 April 1924 – 16 November 1977) was an American computer scientist, who emigrated to the US from Germany after the Second World War. She was known in the field of computer science for her role in developing emulation capability. She was also notable as the fiancée of the German Protestant theologian and Resistance worker Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Life
Maria von Wedemeyer was born in 1924 at Pätzig in the Neumark area of Brandenburg to Hans von Wedemeyer, a landowner / gentleman farmer, and his wife Ruth (née Kleist). Maria was the third of their seven children. Relatives came from the Bismarck family and other Prussian noble families. She grew up on her parents' estate at Pätzig.
Relationship with Bonhoeffer
Von Wedemeyer first met Bonhoeffer in the urban home of Ruth von Kleist-Retzow, her maternal grandmother, when she was 11 or 12 years old. He was conducting confirmation classes for Maria's elder brother and cousins; and the grandmother asked if Maria could be included. Bonhoeffer interviewed her and refused to have her join the class due to her "immaturity".
Bonhoeffer and von Wedemeyer were reintroduced seven years later when Bonhoeffer was on a writing retreat at Ruth von Kleist-Retzow's country home, Klein Krössin. Notwithstanding their age difference of 18 years — she was 18 years old and he was 36 — they developed a rapport. They became engaged on 13 January 1943.
Less than three months after their engagement, Bonhoeffer was arrested for his activities in resisting the Nazi government. He and von Wedemeyer corresponded during his imprisonment in Tegel Prison and she was permitted to visit him
"fairly regularly, at least once a month". After he was implicated by association with the Abwehr members who planned the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, Bonhoeffer was transferred to a Gestapo high security prison and was permitted no further contact with her or his family.
Bonhoeffer, and most of the other incarcerated members of the 20th of July plot, were ultimately executed just before the end of the war. Bonhoeffer was hanged at the Flossenbürg concentration camp on 8 April 1945. Bonhoeffer's remaining possessions from his time in prison were returned to his parents, including the letters that Maria had written to him. His parents returned those letters to her and, as result, she possessed their (essentially) complete correspondence.
Computer science career and marriages
Following the war, von Wedemeyer began studying mathematics at the University of Göttingen (1945-1947); then at the University of Frankfurt (1947-1948). From 1948-1950, she continued her studies on a scholarship to Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia, graduating from with an MA in 1950.
In 1949, she returned to Germany to marry Paul-Werner Schniewind (born 1923), son of the theologian Julius Schniewind, and they decided to emigrate to the United States. They had two children before their marriage ended in divorce i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside%20Airbnb | Inside Airbnb is an investigatory/watchdog website launched by Murray Cox in 2016. It reports and visualizes scraped data on the property rental marketplace company Airbnb, focusing on highlighting illegal renting on the site and gentrification caused by landlords buying properties to rent on Airbnb.
History
Cox, an Australian-American community activist who moved to Brooklyn in 2008, first scraped information from the Airbnb website in 2014 and compared it to a public data release from the company in December 2015 for New York City. Working with a Canadian, Tom Slee, he found the company had removed over 1000 listings that violated New York's multiple dwelling law just before the data was released. They published a report titled "How Airbnb’s Data Hid the Facts in New York City" in February 2016. Airbnb said the listings were removed for violating policy, and it has since enforced a "one host, one home" policy in New York. Inside Airbnb has since published several more reports, including on how the service affects affordable housing in Los Angeles. After initially welcoming Airbnb with little regulation, Australian local government has used Inside Airbnb data following concerns about pressure on housing supply and affordability. As of 2019, the site provides data on 80 cities around the world.
Reception
Airbnb says Cox's scraped data are inaccurate, because not all listings are active, some properties may be listed multiple times, and Inside Airbnb reports mean income rather than their preferred metric of median income, but Prof. David Wachsmuth of McGill University says the data are a good representation. Nicole Gurran and Peter Phibbs of the University of Sydney found that "This data source has some critical limitations ... Nevertheless, the data provide a useful basis for examining and monitoring Airbnb practices and penetration across local and regional housing markets". Airbnb has repeatedly criticised the site, including calling it "garbage", though Cox met with representatives from the company in February 2019.
Funding
As of 2019, the site costs around $10,000 per year to operate, with those costs covered by cities, researchers, and the hotel trade paying for data access.
References
External links
Internet properties established in 2016
Oversight and watchdog organizations
Housing rights organizations
Organizations based in Brooklyn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Cable%20%28software%20developer%29 | Jack Cable (born February 18, 2000) is an American computer security researcher and software developer. He is best known for his participation in bug bounty programs, including placing first in the U.S. Department of Defense's Hack the Air Force challenge. Cable began working for the Pentagon's Defense Digital Service in the summer of 2018.
After discovering and reporting severe vulnerabilities in several states' electoral infrastructure, Cable joined the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in the summer of 2020. There, Cable served as a technical advisor to help protect state election systems against foreign hacking attempts.
For his work, Cable was named one of Time Magazine's 25 Most Influential Teens of 2018. Cable has spoken on vulnerability disclosure and election security at conferences including the DEF CON Voting Village, Black Hat Briefings, and the Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything Festival. In 2019, Cable helped launch Stanford's bug bounty program, one of the first in higher education.
Biography
Cable grew up in the Chicago suburbs and attended New Trier High School. He began programming in middle school and discovered bug bounty programs at the age of 15 after finding a vulnerability in a financial website. Cable has founded a cybersecurity consulting firm, Lightning Security. Cable studied computer science at Stanford, where he received a B.S. in computer science.
Cable joined cybersecurity consulting firm Krebs Stamos Group in 2021 as a Security Architect.
Ransomware research
In 2021, Cable identified a workaround in a ransomware payment system to save victims $27,000, for which he was acknowledged by U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
Cable also launched Ransomwhere, a crowdsourced ransomware payment tracker that aims to address the ransomware visibility problem.
Publications and articles
"Every Computer Science Degree Should Require a Course in Cybersecurity". Harvard Business Review. Published August 27, 2019.
"Why the U.S. government needs you to hack it". Fast Company. Published December 17, 2019.
References
Hackers
2000 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20Doctor%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of Doctor Doctor (known as The Heart Guy outside of Australasia), an Australian drama television series, premiered on Nine Network on 5 February 2020. The season will consist of 10 episodes. In the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the United States, the show was released in November and December of 2019.
This season will see Dustin Clare, Kate Jenkinson and Robyn Nevin joining the cast.
Season four was intended to premiere on Nine in late 2019; however, it was delayed until 5 February 2020. It received its world premiere in the United Kingdom on Drama on 16 November 2019.
Cast
Main
Rodger Corser as Hugh Knight
Nicole da Silva as Charlie Knight (née Pereira)
Ryan Johnson as Matt Knight
Tina Bursill as Meryl Knight
Hayley McElhinney as Penny Cartwright
Chloe Bayliss as Hayley Mills Knight
Matt Castley as Ajax Cross Knight
Belinda Bromilow as Betty Bell
Charles Wu as Ken Liu
Miranda Tapsell as April
Kate Jenkinson as Tara Khourdair
Dustin Clare as Jarrod
Special guest
Robyn Nevin as Dinah
Recurring and guest
Patrick Wilson as Rod Eagle
Zoe Carides as Nancy Miller
Uli Latukefu as Darren
Tim Potter as Eddie
Alice Ansara as Green Annie
Alan Dukes as Glen
Jerome Velinsky as Val
Ella Scott Lynch as Celia
Episodes
Reception
Ratings
Award nominations
AACTA Awards (2020)
Nominated: Best Television Drama Series – Doctor Doctor
Home media
International release
The Drama channel in the United Kingdom was the first channel to screen the fourth season. It screened two episodes every Saturday night at 10 pm and 11 pm from 16 November 2019. Acorn TV in the United States released the fourth season in its entirety on 9 December 2019. Sveriges Television in Sweden aired the fourth season (with the show titled "Hjärtats vägar" in Swedish) with three episodes a week which started on 27 November and finished on 18 December 2019.
References
2020 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraser%20Wars | Eraser Wars is a 2017 Japanese computer-animated science fiction action film. Its director, AKIRA, was in 7th grade at the point of completion and release of the film. All characters are portrayed using rubber erasers. The film was digitally released in Japan, the United States, and the European Union on Amazon Prime in 2018. A sequel and spin-off film, MIDNIGHT ~ Eraser WARS spin off, has also been produced starring actress Hinako Saeki and Kayo Hoshino.
Release
Busan International Kids & Youth Film Festival (2018)
Animation Runs! (2018)
DONATION THEATER (2018)
Toronto International Independent Film Festival (2017)
21st Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (2017)
Cinema New York City official selection (2017)
KINEKO International Children's Film Festival (2017)
Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival (2017)
1st Yokkaichi Film Festival (2017)
References
External links
2017 computer-animated films
2010s Japanese films
2017 films
2017 science fiction action films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYWA | One Radio 101.3 (DYWA 101.3 MHz) is an FM station owned and operated by Wave Network. Its studios and transmitter are located at Pier 2, Catbalogan. The frequency is formerly owned by Manila Broadcasting Company.
References
External links
One Radio FB Page
Radio stations in Samar (province) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity%20Network%20with%20Migrants%20Japan | Solidarity Network with Migrants Japan (移住者と連帯する全国ネットワーク Ijūsha to Rentai suru Zenkoku Nettowāku), abbreviated as SMJ (移住連 Ijūren), is a non-partisan advocacy organization and umbrella of migrant interest and support organizations founded 1997 in Japan. Solidarity Network with Migrants Japan was founded in 1997 by 66 migrant support groups and 72 individuals, who started to meet on a regular basis at the “nationwide forum for solidarity with migrant workers” (ijū rōdōsha to rentai suru zenkoku fōramu) in 1996. Since June 2015 SMJ is legally incorporated as Non-Profit Organization (NPO) under the Japanese NPO-law. Among the SMJ’s members are organizations as well as individuals. The SMJ’s office is located in Bunkyō ward, Tokyo. The largest part of its revenue comes from membership fees and subscriptions.
Activities
SMJ describes its activities as advocacy, networking, and publicity.
Authors observed the organizations’ potential for deliberative democracy and global citizenship education.
Publications
SMJ publishes the monthly Japanese language magazine Migrants Network. One issue costs 500 Yen and can be purchased via subscription. The SMJ has also edited several non-fiction books on different migration issues. Most of them have been published by Akashi Shoten, a publisher in Tokyo specializing in education, social and minority issues in Japan.
Policy demands
In 2002 the SMJ demanded wide-ranging reforms of foreigner policies in Japan. As the SMJ’s proposal touched all aspects of migration and foreigners living in Japan, it has been one of the most encompassing in Japan so far. In ten chapters it recommended policy revisions that concerned the rights of foreigners as workers, women’s rights, education and citizenship of children, the role of the local self-government, the treatment of asylum seekers, the rights of foreigners in court and proclaimed the aim of ending racism and xenophobia in Japan. A central demand of SMJ is abolishing the Technical Intern Training Program and creating a visa category for foreign nationals finding employment in Japan without restriction on skills and educational attainment.
Further legal changes proposed by SMJ include the introduction of a basic law on the human rights of foreigners, a law that prohibits discrimination based on race and ethnicity, a constitutional reform that guarantees more basic rights to foreigners, a separation of the law on immigration and refugee recognition and abolishing of the Alien Registration Act. It also urged the Japanese government to completely ratify all international human rights conventions, as well as to withdraw its reservations concerning the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).
Advocacy
The SMJ has no formal ties to political parties in Japan. In July 2008, the former Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which was in power from August 2009 to December 2012, published a report on foreign workers policies. Besides ot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISAM%20%28disambiguation%29 | ISAM or Isam may refer to:
Computing
ISAM, the IBM mainframe indexed sequential access method
C-ISAM, a C language application programming interface
MyISAM, a storage engine for MySQL
People
Isam Bachiri, a Danish rapper
Banu Isam, a former Berber Muslim dynasty
Isam al-Qadi, a Palestinian Ba'thist politician
Isam al-Attar, a former Muslim Brotherhood leader
Organizations
Institute for Sales and Account Management
International Society of Addiction Medicine
Hitchcock Institute for the Study of American Music at Brooklyn College
International Society for Aerosols in Medicine
Others
ISAM (album), an album by musician Amon Tobin
The Iraqi Security Assistance mission, part of the Multi-National Security Transition Command – Iraq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cable%20television%20National%20Football%20League%20over-the-air%20affiliates | To maximize TV ratings, as well as to protect the NFL's ability to sell TV rights collectively, games televised on ESPN or the NFL Network are blacked out in each of the primary markets of both teams (the Green Bay Packers have two primary markets, Green Bay and Milwaukee, a remnant of when they played some home games in Milwaukee each season, see below) under syndicated exclusivity regulations as the league sells via broadcast syndication a package featuring that team's games.
This station does not need to have affiliate connections with a national broadcaster of NFL games, though owned-and-operated stations of ABC and Hearst Television (even those Hearst stations not affiliated with ABC, and including their one independent station in the Tampa-St. Petersburg market) have first right of refusal due to both ESPN and ABC's common ownership by The Walt Disney Company (Hearst holds a 20% stake in ESPN). In recent years, the ABC O&Os have passed on airing the game, opting instead to air the network's Monday night schedule which includes the successful Dancing with the Stars. In other markets, stations who are the affiliates of MyNetworkTV or The CW (and, in at least one case, an independent station) have out bid more established local broadcasters in some markets. However, the home team's market must be completely served by the station and that broadcast can only air if the game is sold out within 72 hours of kick-off.
Under the agreement for the 2014 season between CBS and the NFL Network for Thursday Night Football simulcasts during the first half of the season, local rights to such games that are not carried by CBS are awarded to the markets' CBS affiliates, rather than syndicated. If the CBS affiliate opts out of the deal, the NFL will offer the package by syndication, typically with the Monday Night package. The CBS/NFL Network deal was extended for the 2015 season on January 18, 2015. For the 2016 season, two midseason TNF games were NFL Network-exclusive but produced by NBC; the NBC affiliates in those markets with teams competing carried those games in-market. With the 2018 move of the package to Fox, the two NFL Network-exclusive games produced by Fox actually varied between NBC and CBS affiliates rather than being exclusive to the Fox stations in each market.
On November 8, 1987, the first NFL game aired on ESPN was played between the New England Patriots and New York Giants. Technically, the game was only simulcast in the Boston market, with a separate broadcast produced for the New York market by ESPN sister property WABC-TV – at the time, WABC's union contract prohibited non-union workers (like those of ESPN) from working on live events broadcast on the station. This marked the only time since the AFL–NFL merger that a regular season game was locally produced for TV. The WABC broadcast featured WABC's own Corey McPherrin doing play-by-play, and Frank Gifford and Lynn Swann from Monday Night Football doing color commentary.
Note: Tea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TREAC | TREAC or the TRE Automatic Computer was one of the first British computers, and in the world.
History
It was developed by the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) in Worcestershire. The University of Manchester had been developing some of the first computers in the late 1940s and early 1950s. From 1947, the TRE in Worcestershire had been developing computers. The main part of the Manchester team had previously been at TRE. TRE had produced much of the electronics for the United Kingdom (for radar) during World War II, and came under the Ministry of Supply.
Development
TREAC was developed in the early 1950s. TREAC produced the first computer synthesised music. It ran its first computer program in 1953; from 1958 different sorts of computer programs could be written. All information was fed in and fed out on punched paper tape. TREAC was a parallel computer, the first in the UK.
Closure
TREAC was switched off in 1962, and replaced with the Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer (RREAC, the UK's first solid state computer).
See also
Hollerith Electronic Computer
SEAC (computer)
SWAC (computer)
References
1950s computers
Computer music
Computer-related introductions in 1953
Early British computers
Malvern, Worcestershire
Musical instruments invented in the 1950s
Science and technology in Worcestershire
Synthesizer electronics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GR%2056 | The GR 56 is a hiking trail in southeast Belgium from St. Vith to Malmedy. The approximately 200 km long trail is part of the GR long-distance hiking trail network (France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain). The GR 56 was one of the first GR long-distance trails in Belgium and is traditionally marked in white and red stripes.
The GR trail 56 leads from St. Vith to Malmedy. The route from Sankt Vith, via Hohe Venn to Monschau, through the Belgian nature park Eifel to Burg-Reuland. The minimum distance of the entire route is 164 km and the longest around the 200 km.
In 2011, the GR 56 was extended by two cross-links through the Amblève and Warche-valley.
Literature
Topo Guide GR 56
References
GR 56 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOW%20%28programming%20language%29 | FLOW is an educational programming language designed by Jef Raskin in 1970 and implemented on several minicomputers in the early 1970s. The goal of the language is to make it easy to explore algorithms through a highly interactive environment. The overall language is very similar in syntax and structure to the BASIC programming language, but has a number of changes in order to make typing code easier. Most notable among these was the concept of "typing amplification", in which short strings, often a single character, were expanded by the language into the complete "unamplified" source code. Modern integrated development environments and code-oriented text editors often include a similar feature, now normally referred to as autocomplete. The beginning programmer would first create a flow chart to solve the problem. Since all of the problems involved words (rather than mathematical problems) the solution was intuitive. The flow chart would be translated into the flow programming language using a top-down, mechanical method.
History
In 1970, the English Department of the University of Kansas hosted a meeting on the use of computers in the humanities. The conference was followed by a training session that ran from June 13 to August 18, where Jef Raskin was one of several teachers involved in training other teachers basic computer skills. During this period, Raskin developed the FLOW language concept.
A key design element of FLOW was the attempt to avoid syntax errors by automating the entry of the language as much as possible. For instance, if one wanted to enter the statement , the user simply had to type and the interactive editor would expand it out as they typed. If the user entered an illegal command, it would flash on the terminal and then be automatically erased so the user was "none the worse for hitting a wrong key". They referred to this concept as "typing amplification", and noted that it had the added advantage of removing an impediment for slow typers or those with physical problems using a terminal.
Lewis and Norman later referred to this concept as "gag", in that it gagged the user's input until they typed something useful. They illustrated this by recounting one of Raskin's favorite demonstrations of FLOW, where he would close his eyes and hit random keys on the terminal, building a syntactically correct, albeit meaningless, program.
Another aspect of the FLOW system's approach to user interaction was its debugger. This included the command , an analog to BASIC's that delayed after executing each statement in a fashion similar to modern single-step systems.
On his return to University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Raskin was able to arrange funding from UCSD and matching funds from the National Science Foundation to purchase equipment to develop the FLOW system, a total of $76,000 (). The initial system consisted of three Data General Nova minicomputers with 12k words of memory, several VST 1200 terminals, a Tektronix 4002 g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Flora%20Online | World Flora Online is an Internet-based compendium of the world's plant species.
Description
The World Flora Online (WFO) is an open-access database, launched in October 2012 as a follow-up project to The Plant List, with the aim of publishing an online flora of all known plants by 2020. It is a project of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, with goal of halting the loss of plant species worldwide by 2020. It is developed by a collaborative group of institutions around the world in response to the 2011–2020 Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC)'s updated Target 1: to produce "an online flora of all known plants".
An accessible flora of all known plant species was considered a fundamental requirement for plant conservation. It provides a baseline for the achievement and monitoring of other targets of the strategy. The previous target of GSPC was achieved in 2010 with The Plant List. WFO was conceived in 2012 by an initial group of four institutions; the Missouri Botanical Garden, the New York Botanical Garden, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In all, 36 institutions are involved in the production.
References
Bibliography
, see also The Plant List
.
Databases in the United Kingdom
Databases in the United States
Missouri Botanical Garden
Online botany databases
Online taxonomy databases
Plant taxonomy
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMOS%20%28software%29 | VMOS is a virtual machine app that runs on Android, which can run another Android OS as the guest operating system. Users can optionally run the guest Android VM as a rooted Android OS. The VMOS guest Android operating system has access to the Google Play Store and other Google apps. The first Android virtual machine to offer Google Play services and other Google apps was VMOS.
Virtualization
The app itself when downloaded is the base virtualization core, however, the Android operating system image for the guest OS is downloaded when the app is first opened up. Being that the guest operating system is in a virtual environment, any configurations like a rooted android kernel on the guest, would not affect the host Android operating system or device. Due to this, via VMOS allows running a rooted Android operating system on the phone via virtualization without the device actually being rooted, and thus no issues with warranty or with the cellular carrier/provider. Being a virtual machine, the guest Android operating system has a separate disk image, and thus if a virus or other threat does something malicious in the guest operating system, it will not affect the host device and the host operating system.
Device requirements
Due to being a virtual machine app, the app does have requirements that the device must meet in order to run the app. One such requirement is that the phone must have at least more than 32GB storage. The app also requires at least 2GB of RAM. In order for the app to do virtualization and any optional user configured settings for the guest OS, the app requires multiple permissions.
Guest OS settings
VMOS comes with many configuration settings for the guest OS other than the rooted Android operating system option. Some of these options include choosing the display size resolution the guest would use, the ability to import/clone apps from the host operating system, allowing the use of phone calls, and many others.
Known uses
Although VMOS can be used for anything the user wishes to do, there have been some notable uses that have been known. Some major software developers suggest users to install VMOS to use their software on a device running the Android operating system.
One such known use is by app developers who create Android apps that are intended for rooted Android devices. Another use was the ability for users to multitask or utilize an app with two instances of it, as many Android apps can only have a single instance.
Huawei Mate 30
The Huawei Mate 30 was known to not be shipped with the official Google Play Store and related android system apps, due to Huawei being on the US blacklist. Huawei on the blacklist meant that it was not allowed to use any US hardware or software. However, the unofficial Google Play App that was developed by a Chinese developer, enabled users of the device to download and install android apps. However, the unofficial Google Play App was eventually removed. However, many use |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWJE | DWJE (88.1 FM), on-air as 88.1 Radyo Pangasinan, is a radio station owned and operated by Pangasinan Gulf Waves Network Corporation. The station's studio and transmitter are located at the 3rd floor, Jumel Bldg., A.B. Fernandez Ave., Dagupan. It broadcasts daily from 5:00 AM to 10:00 PM.
Programming
Weekday mornings on Radyo Pangasinan begin with Junior Morning Na!, an hour-long music program that plays Pangasinan and Ilocano songs. The remainder of the weekday schedule features 5½ hours per day of locally produced news and talk programs (with four hours in the morning primetime slot and 1½ hour in the late-afternoon), with music and entertainment programming from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM and again from 6:30 PM until sign-off at 10:00 PM.
The weekend schedule focuses more on music and entertainment throughout the broadcast day, with Saturday programming being branded as Throwback Sabado, as well as all-day music automation on Sundays.
References
External links
Official Facebook Page
Radio stations in Dagupan
Radio stations established in 2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.1205 | X.1205 is a technical standard, that provides an overview of cybersecurity, it was developed by the Standardization Sector of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T). The standard provides an overview of cybersecurity as well as a taxonomy of threats in cybersecurity.
References
ITU-T recommendations
ITU-T X Series Recommendations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetan%20Shah | Hetan Shah is the chief executive of the British Academy and the chair of Our World in Data. He is a visiting professor at King's College London and a Fellow of Birkbeck, University of London. He served as executive director of the Royal Statistical Society from 2011 to 2019.
Early life and education
Shah studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford and graduated in 1996. He earned a postgraduate diploma at Nottingham Law School and a master's degree in history and politics at Birkbeck, University of London. He earned a further postgraduate certificate in economics at Birkbeck, University of London in 2003.
Career
Shah is Chief Executive of the British Academy, the UK's national academy for humanities and social sciences. He began this role in February 2020.
Shah served as executive director of the Royal Statistical Society from 2011 to 2019. Under his leadership the society developed several new initiatives, including the celebration of Statistics of the Year, the Data Manifesto and the development of Statistical Ambassadors. The 10-point data manifesto was published after the 2015 election, intended to communicate the significance of certain statistics with politicians and the general public. The manifesto emphasised the need to use reliable evidence in public debate. Statistical Ambassadors act to support charities and the media, pairing them with statisticians trained in public engagement.
Shah called for the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee to stop having evidence sessions that consistently feature all male panels. In 2018 he worked with the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries to investigate the implications of big data. Shah believes that the public may become mistrustful of commercial use of their data in the same way they queried genetically modified food.
In 2019 it was announced that Shah would join the British Academy as Chief Executive in 2020.
Non executive roles
He is Chair of the Our World in Data website which provides long run datasets on global issues and a member of the Board of the Legal Education Foundation, a philanthropic body that works on strengthening justice. Shah serves on a number of advisory boards including for the Resolution Foundation, the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at Cambridge University, and UCL's Public Policy Lab.
Shah helped to found and went on to serve as Vice Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute between 2018 and 2022. He served as Chair of the Friends Provident Foundation, a grant-making foundation from 2016-2020. The Ada Lovelace Institute is a research body that looks to ensure all data and artificial intelligence serves to benefit all members of society. The think-tank was established after a Royal Statistical Society workshop on big data, when participants questioned what ethics and governance organisations could use. The Ada Lovelace Institute support both the public and private sector, and is independent of government or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20H.%20Campbell | Roy H. Campbell is a computer scientist and the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor emeritus at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and director of the Assured Cloud Computing University Center of Excellence. Campbell is best known for his work in operating systems, parallel computing, and multimedia on the internet.
Early life and education
Roy Harold Campbell grew up outside of London, UK; his father died when Campbell was young and his mother ran a wholesale-cloth business. He received a B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Sussex in 1969. He then completed an M.Sc. in 1972 and Ph.D. in 1976, both in computer science, from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His Ph.D. was advised by Hugh C. Lauer and Brian Randell, entitled 'Path Expressions: A technique for specifying process synchronization'.
Campbell moved to the United States in 1976 with his wife Ann Campbell to pursue an academic posting at UIUC.
Career
Campbell joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC) in 1976. There he led a research group in the department of computer science, the Systems Research Group, until his retirement in 2019. One of Campbell's initial areas of interest was multimedia on the internet, a field which has now given rise to, among other areas, the Internet of Things. In the early days of multimedia on the internet, Campbell worked on Vosiac internet video distribution system. Campbell has also made contributions in the areas of distributed computing, including work operating systems, a foundation field, as well as work in parallel computing and cloud computing security.
In 2004, Campbell was named the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor in computer science at UIUC. In 2005, Campbell was recognized as an IEEE Fellow. From 2008 to 2013, Campbell served as the director of the Assured Cloud Computing University Center of Excellence at UIUC, and Campbell authored the textbook 'Assured Cloud Computing'.
Through his career Campbell was active in his service to the administration of the UIUC computer science department and other scientific society administration, receiving the ACM Recognition of Service Award in 2008 and 2010. Campbell is an active donor to the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts on UIUC campus.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of the University of Sussex
Alumni of Newcastle University
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS%20virtualization%20and%20emulation%20on%20Android | Android devices have the ability to run virtual machines or emulate other operating systems. It does this either via desktop virtualization, platform virtualization, or emulation via compatibility layer.
Desktop virtualization
Desktop virtualization apps are the least resource and space intensive compared to other virtualization types, since the Operating System that is being displayed on the Android device is actually located on another computer on the local network or elsewhere like on the internet. Depending upon how the desktop virtualization app works, they use RDP or can use another protocol of their own. Most business oriented desktop virtualization apps require specific types of equipment or services in order for the app to fully function. For example, VMware Horizon Client requires specific VMware equipment for the app to work.
A major downside that desktop virtualization apps have compared to other types of virtualization or emulation technologies is that they require a network connection to the server as stated previously above.
Platform virtualization
Platform virtualization allows more leverage to the developer as anything that relates to the guest operating system only affects the guest operating system, and not the host operating system. Due to this it is possible for the guest operating system to be rooted, where as the host operating system remains unrooted. Due to the nature of platform virtualization and the fact that it can virtualize a rooted guest OS, it has a greater advantage over emulators as it can run applications or utilize packages that require access to the underlying system itself.
As with all platform virtualization software and applications, they take up a lot of resources of the host in order to do the virtualization.
Emulation
Types of emulations
Emulation of other operating systems
Emulation of other operating systems on Android require the usage of some form of compatibility layer, where the compatibility layer must utilize some form of technologies or APIs to run the OS inside of the app container. This does come with limitations as some emulators utilize PRoot which is a chroot like environment. Unlike terminal emulators that emulate the internal OS with/without any extension package support, it can install actual (for example) Ubuntu packages, as it does not rely too much on the Android system limitations. However, not all packages and applications can run.
Terminal emulation of internal operating system
Terminal emulation of the Android device itself is done via either an actual local loopback to the device, or an emulation that seems to be a local loopback. Most of these terminal emulations of the device itself utilize the native terminal Toybox toolchain's library and functions that come with every android device. However due to the fact that the majority of the functions that are readily available without utilizing a compatibility layer, means that Toybox functions can o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP%20%28programming%20language%29 | SNAP, short for Stylized, Natural, Procedural, is an educational programming language designed by Michael Barnett while working at RCA in 1968 and later used at Columbia University to teach programming in the humanities. It is an imperative programming language, like many languages of the 1960s, but was deliberately verbose, attempting to look more like conversational English in the fashion of HyperText and later languages. Unlike other educational languages of the era, SNAP was not intended to be interactive and was designed to be programmed via punch cards. To save cards, multiple period-separated statements could be written on every card, so the resulting code often looked like a single paragraph.
History
In 1964, Michael Barnett joined RCA's newly-formed Graphic Systems Division which had been formed to commercialize the photo-typesetting technology they had licensed from Rudolf Hell. Originally known as Digiset, RCA sold the systems under the name Videocomp. About 50 Videocomp systems were sold over its history.
In 1964 and 1965, Barnett developed a page description language known as PAGE-1 to write programs that resulted in Videocomp output, similar to the way the later PostScript language produces pages on laser printers. One of the early applications of this system was to publish Social Sciences Index by the H. W. Wilson Company.
This led to Barnett's interest in the social sciences and his increasing interactions with H. W. Wilson and Columbia University's humanities department. Barnett took a position at H. W. Wilson in 1969. He had also started to teach courses on library automation at the Columbia School of Library Service, and in 1970, computer programming in the humanities. He joined the Columbia faculty full-time in 1975.
The first version of SNAP was written by William Ruhsam of RCA in FORTRAN IV for the RCA Spectra 70, although a version for the IBM 360 in OS-360 was also produced. some time in 1967 or 1968. The language generated a fair amount of comment, especially in the early 1970s, but appears to have had little direct influence on later languages.
Description
General concepts
SNAP allowed multiple statements to be placed on a single line, and used the period as the statement separator. This produced code that looked like English sentences, and was generally organized into blocks that looked like paragraphs.
SNAP did not use line numbers for editing, and instead used in-code labels for branch targets, as was the case in FORTRAN. In SNAP, a label could be placed anywhere in the code by surrounding the textual name in parentheses like . Labels were not separate statements, and did not require a period after them.
Variables names could contain spaces, which is relatively rare for programming languages even today. Variables could hold strings or numbers, but different syntax was used to assign each one. For numbers, a simple syntax was used, was also used to perform mathematical operations, like A simpler syntax was o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20community%20%28disambiguation%29 | A virtual community is an online social network.
It may also refer to:
Online community, whose members interact with each other primarily via the Internet
Virtual community of practice, a community of practice that is maintained online
The Virtual Community, a 1993 book by Howard Rheingold
Virtual business, which employs electronic means to transact business
Virtual reality, a simulated experience
Virtual scientific community, a group of scientists who share resources over the internet
Virtual team, individuals who work together from different geographic locations
Virtual world, a computer-simulated environment
See also
List of virtual communities
List of virtual communities with more than 1 million users
IBM Virtual Universe Community
Virtual (disambiguation)
Community (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elcano%20%26%20Magellan%3A%20The%20First%20Voyage%20Around%20the%20World | Elcano & Magellan: The First Voyage Around the World (, ) is a 2019 Spanish computer-animated adventure film directed by Ángel Alonso and written by José Antonio Vitoria and Garbiñe Losana. The film retells the story of 1519 circumnavigation led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano.
Elcano & Magellan: The First Voyage Around the World premiered at the 2019 Málaga Film Festival on 23 March 2019, and was released in Spain on July 5, during the 500th anniversary of the expedition. The film was made controversial in the Philippines for its inaccurate portrayal of the Filipino natives, especially Lapulapu, who led the Battle of Mactan that killed Magellan. At the 34th Goya Awards, it earned a nomination for Best Animated Film.
The OST "Confía en el Viento" was sung by La Oreja De Van Gogh.
Plot
Set in Seville, Andalusia in 1519, Juan Sebastián Elcano is a young and irresponsible man who wants to live as a captain of his little boat, but due to debts that he has with the city's bank, the bank manager confiscates Elcano's boat and orders the guards to arrest him as a defaulter.
As he tries to avoid imprisonment, Elcano enlists as part of an expedition of five ships commanded by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, nicknamed "The Navigator", in order to arrive in the Moluccas Islands to get spices, very valuable to the ruling Kingdom of Castile.
Portuguese ambassador Álvaro da Costa plots to make the journey a failure since the Moluccas Islands belong to the Kingdom of Portugal, and hires Yago as spy and saboteur to prevent the journey's success. Unaware of it, Magellan completes the crew of the five ships: the Trinidad, the San Antonio, the Concepción, the Santiago, and the Victoria; and starts the journey.
Elcano, hoping to have his own ship, works as a helmsman for Captain Juan de Cartagena, who despises him and is suspicious about Magellan, taking him as a traitor who secretly works for Portugal. At the same time that Yago makes some sabotages, Cartagena conspires with the other captains to get Magellan's secret map to navigate by unknown lands. But after Magellan died after a battle with natives of the Saint Lazarus islands, Elcano is promoted by the crew as the new leader of the trip.
Travelling to the west following the sun and determined to fulfill the mission, Elcano finds himself fighting against not only Yago and Álvaro da Costa, but time and starvation to make history and give the first trip around the world.
Voice cast
Release
The film was screened on 23 March 2019 during the Málaga Film Festival. It was later released in Spain by Barton Films and Filmax on 5 July 2019, on the 500th anniversary of the circumnavigation. The film was also released in countries such as Kuwait, Lebanon, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Turkey, and Vietnam.
Controversy
In November 2019, the film sparked online controversy in the Philippines for glorifying colonialism and its historical inaccuracies, includ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franc%20Solina | Franc Solina (born 31 July 1955) is a Slovenian computer scientist and university professor from Celje, Slovenia.
Education
After finishing the Bežigrad Grammar School in 1974 Solina enrolled at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana where he graduated in 1979 and received in 1982 also his Master of Science degree in electrical engineering.
In 1987 Solina received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania.
His doctoral advisor was Ruzena Bajcsy, director of the GRASP Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Research
In 1988 Solina started to teach computer science at the University of Ljubljana where he became a full professor at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science in 1998.
In 1991 Solina founded the Computer vision laboratory
where research in computer vision, multimedia and human–computer interaction is taking place.
Since 1999 he is also the head of the nationally funded research programe Computer Vision.
Solina published more than 200 peer reviewed research articles.
Solina pioneered the interpretation of range images using superquadrics as part-level volumetric models. He also integrated the recovery of individual superquadric models with segmentation of range images into several individual parts.
Solina's superquadrics recovery method is used in many different disciplines, ranging from grasp and path planning in robotics to modelling the shape of body parts and organs in medicine. Solina himself is using superquadric modeling in digital heritage to model archeological artefacts.
According to Google Scholar, citations of Solina's publications related to modelling with supequadrics exceeded in March 2020 the number 1700.
For contributions to interpretation of range images and for service to IAPR Solina became an IAPR Fellow in 2002.
Art related activities
Solina became engaged also in new media art where he uses his knowledge of computer technology for production of interactive and
installation art,
but also for his own art projects.
Due to his artistic involvement Solina became a member of the Slovenian Association of Fine Artists.
Since 2012 he teaches also in the Video and New Media study program at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana.
Commissions of trust
Between 2006 and 2010 Solina served as the Dean of the Faculty of Computer and Information Science when he administered the study reform that enacted the Bologna Process and coordinated the architectural planning of the new faculty building which was unveiled in 2014.
For the period of 2010-2014 he was nominated by the Government of Slovenia to the Board of Governors of Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana.
Franc Solina frequently comments on technology issues in Slovenian press and on television.
Franc Solina became in 2018 a regular member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea) in Salzburg.
Selec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.8201 | In Optical Transport Networks, G.8201 is an international standard that defines error performance parameters and objectives for multi-operator international paths.
G.8201 is defined by the International Telecommunications Union's Standardization sector (ITU-T).
History
G.8201 was developed by Study Group 13 of ITU-T in 2003. In 2011 a revised version was published (April 2011).
Standard
The G.8201 standard defines error performance parameters and objectives for
international ODUk paths transported by the optical transport network (OTN).
The standard specifically addresses objectives for international ODUk paths, however the allocation principles can also be applied to the design of error performance for national or private ODUk paths.
References
ITU-T recommendations
ITU-T G Series Recommendations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraphBLAS | GraphBLAS () is an API specification that defines standard building blocks for graph algorithms in the language of linear algebra. GraphBLAS is built upon the notion that a sparse matrix can be used to represent graphs as either an adjacency matrix or an incidence matrix. The GraphBLAS specification describes how graph operations (e.g. traversing and transforming graphs) can be efficiently implemented via linear algebraic methods (e.g. matrix multiplication) over different semirings.
The development of GraphBLAS and its various implementations is an ongoing community effort, including representatives from industry, academia, and government research labs.
Background
Graph algorithms have long taken advantage of the idea that a graph can be represented as a matrix, and graph operations can be performed as linear transformations and other linear algebraic operations on sparse matrices. For example, matrix-vector multiplication can be used to perform a step in a breadth-first search.
The GraphBLAS specification (and the various libraries that implement it) provides data structures and functions to compute these linear algebraic operations. In particular, GraphBLAS specifies sparse matrix objects which map well to graphs where vertices are likely connected to relatively few neighbors (i.e. the degree of a vertex is significantly smaller than the total number of vertices in the graph). The specification also allows for the use of different semirings to accomplish operations in a variety of mathematical contexts.
Originally motivated by the need for standardization in graph analytics, similar to its namesake BLAS, the GraphBLAS standard has also begun to interest people outside the graph community, including researchers in machine learning, and bioinformatics. GraphBLAS implementations have also been used in high-performance graph database applications such as RedisGraph.
Specification
The GraphBLAS specification has been in development since 2013, and has reached version 2.0.0 as of November 2021. While formally a specification for the C programming language, a variety of programming languages have been used to develop implementations in the spirit of GraphBLAS, including C++, Java, and Nvidia CUDA.
Compliant implementations and language bindings
There are currently two fully-compliant reference implementations of the GraphBLAS specification. Bindings assuming a compliant specification exist for the Python, MATLAB, and Julia programming languages.
Linear algebraic foundations
The mathematical foundations of GraphBLAS are based in linear algebra and the duality between matrices and graphs.
Each graph operation in GraphBLAS operates on a semiring, which is made up of the following elements:
A scalar addition operator ()
A scalar multiplication operator ()
A set (or domain)
Note that the zero element (i.e. the element that represents the absence of an edge in the graph) can also be reinterpreted. For example, the following algebras ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20Cities%20%28UNESCO%29 | UNESCO's Design Cities project is part of the wider Creative Cities Network. The Network launched in 2004, and has member cities in seven creative fields. The other fields are: Crafts and Folk Art, Music, Film, Gastronomy, Literature, and Media Arts.
Criteria for UNESCO Design Cities
To be approved as a Design City, cities need to meet a number of criteria set by UNESCO.
Designated UNESCO Design Cities share similar characteristics such as having an established design industry; cultural landscape maintained by design and the built environment (architecture, urban planning, public spaces, monuments, transportation); design schools and design research centers; practicing groups of designers with a continuous activity at a local and national level; experience in hosting fairs, events and exhibits dedicated to design; opportunity for local designers and urban planners to take advantage of local materials and urban/natural conditions; design-driven creative industries such as architecture and interiors, fashion and textiles, jewelry and accessories, interaction design, urban design, sustainable design.
There are 40 Cities of Design:
See also
City of Crafts and Folk Arts
City of Film
City of Gastronomy
City of Literature
City of Music
City of Media Arts
References
UNESCO
Design
Lists of cities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rocketeer%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Rocketeer (titled Rocketeer internationally) is an American computer-animated children's television series. It premiered on Disney Junior and Disney Channel in the United States on November 8, 2019, and on November 10 on Disney Junior in Canada. Based on the comic book superhero of the same name by Dave Stevens and inspired by the 1991 film, the series focuses on Katherine "Kit" Secord, a 7-year-old girl who receives the family jet pack for her 7th birthday. The Rocketeer was aimed for toddlers.
The series received generally positive reviews from critics. It was cancelled after one season.
Premise
In the town of Hughesville, seven-year-old Kit Secord learns she is secretly next in line to become The Rocketeer, a jet pack-wearing superhero who can fly. Armed with her cool new gear and secret identity, Kit takes to the skies to protect Hughesville and its residents from danger. Assisting her on her heroic adventures are her best friend Tesh, bulldog sidekick Butch, and airplane mechanic grandfather Ambrose Secord.
Characters
Main
Katherine "Kit" Secord (voiced by Kitana Turnbull) is a 7-year-old girl who receives the family jet pack for her 7th birthday which reveals that she is next in line to become the Rocketeer, Hughesville's very own local town hero. She is the great-granddaughter of Cliff Secord. When operating as the Rocketeer, Kit's catchphrase is "Never fear, I'm the Rocketeer." She is a new character introduced in this series. It is possible that she is named after Hollywood actress Katharine Hepburn even though she made no appearance within The Rocketeer franchise.
Ambrose Secord (voiced by Frank Welker) is an 84-year-old man, Kit's grandfather and the son of Cliff Secord who works as a mechanic at the Hughesville Airport.
Mitesh "Tesh" Cheena (voiced by Callan Farris) is Kit's 8-year-old best friend who serves as Ground Control when Kit takes to the skies. He is also the inventor of the hi-tech gadgets and upgrades for her jet pack. Tesh is the inventor of Kitcom and the Kit Tracker.
Butch (vocal effects provided by Frank Welker) is Kit's pet bulldog and sidekick.
Recurring
Dave Secord (voiced by Billy Campbell) is Kit's father who is a stunt pilot, which is where Katie gets her passion for flying. Campbell also played Cliff Secord, the original hero in the film, reprising his role in a newsreel seen in the episode "First Flight".
Sareena Secord (voiced by Kathy Najimy) is Kit's mother who works as the manager and chef of the Bulldog Café.
Valerie d'Avion (voiced by Navia Robinson) is Katie's flight school classmate and aspiring pilot whose parents own the Valkyrie Flight Academy. She owns her own plane called the Korsican Skyfang 75. Her superhero identity is the Valkyrie.
Snickerdoodle (vocal effects provided by Frank Welker) is Valerie's pet chihuahua.
Villains
Laura (voiced by Maria Bamford) and Harley (voiced by Kari Wahlgren) are two thieving sisters who like stealing things to use in their heists which often |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Carpentries | The Carpentries is a nonprofit organization that teaches software engineering and data science skills to researchers through instructional workshops. The Carpentries is made up of three programs areas: Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry and Library Carpentry.
The Carpentries workshops have been run internationally, including workshops at the Smithsonian Institution, the Australian Research Data Commons, CERN, and in Antarctica.
History
Software Carpentry workshops began in 1998 as week-long training courses by Brent Gorda and Greg Wilson. at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Software Carpentry Foundation was formed in 2014 alongside the sibling foundation, Data Carpentry. These organizations were merged in 2018 to form what is now known as The Carpentries. In 2018, Library Carpentry became the third lesson program of The Carpentries.
Workshops
Carpentries workshops are two-day workshops led by volunteer instructors who have been certified through the organization's training program. Content covered in a standard workshop includes using the command line and an introduction to a programming language such as R or Python. Workshops under the Data Carpentry program focus on specific subject domains, such as life sciences or social sciences.
A Software Carpentry workshop is designed as an active learning and collaborative experience. The lesson content is hands-on with practice following instructors live coding, while helpers are ready to assist students and keep the class pace. Training covers the core skills needed to be productive in a small research team. Tutorials in the lesson alternate with practical exercises, where collaboration is attempted. There is a collaborative document where the learning process is constructed.
Lessons
Stable lessons
All lesson content under The Carpentries curriculum are licensed openly under Creative Commons licenses.
Before being adopted as an official Carpentries lesson, new lessons go through a series of stages designed to ensure they are sufficiently documented to be teachable by instructors outside of the initial author group.
The Carpentries shares The Carpentries Community Developed Lessons (there are three core topics: the Unix shell, version control with Git, and a programming language (Python or R). Curricula for these lessons in English and Spanish (select lessons only) and also Data Carpentry's lessons.
Community developed lesson
The Carpentries community has a collaborative and open process for lesson development and to sharing teaching materials. The Carpentries incubator contains lessons developed by community members. These lessons follow a life cycle that begins with pre-alpha, where only the concept is offered, and ends with beta, where the lesson is taught in a workshop by instructors other than the authors. There are 4 stages: pre-alpha, alpha, beta, and stable.
Pre-alpha is the draft from the initial lesson idea. Alphas goal is to collect and incorporate feedback from learners and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20badge | An electronic badge (or electronic conference badge) is a gadget that is a replacement for a traditional paper-based badge or pass issued at public events. It is mainly handed out at computer (security) conferences and hacker events. Their main feature is to display the name of the attendee, but due to their electronic nature they can include a variety of software. The badges were originally a tradition at DEF CON, but spread across different events.
Examples
Hardware
SHA2017 badge, which included an e-ink screen and an ESP32
Card10 for CCCamp2019
Electromagnetic Field Camp badge
Software
The organization badge.team has developed a platform called "Hatchery" to publish and develop software for several badges.
References
Computer hardware
Hacker culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roni%20Rosenfeld | Roni Rosenfeld is an Israeli-American computer scientist and computational epidemiologist, currently serving as the head of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an international expert in machine learning, infectious disease forecasting, statistical language modeling and artificial intelligence.
Education
Rosenfeld received his B.Sc. in mathematics and physics from Tel Aviv University in 1985. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. While a graduate student, he developed and open-sourced a statistical language-modeling toolkit to allow anyone to create statistical language models from their own corpora and experiment with and extend the toolkit's capabilities. The toolkit has been used by more than 100 NLP laboratories in more than 20 countries.
Rosenfeld's Ph.D. thesis, A Maximum Entropy Approach to Adaptive Statistical Language Modeling, was advised by Raj Reddy and Xuedong Huang and won the 2001 Computer, Speech and Language award for "Most Influential Paper in the Last 5 Years."
Career
Shortly after receiving his Ph.D., Rosenfeld joined the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science as an assistant professor. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 1999 and received tenure in 2001. In 2005 he was promoted to professor of language technologies, machine learning computer science and computational biology in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Rosenfeld also holds adjunct appointments at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, department of computational and systems biology.
From 2002 to 2003, Rosenfeld was a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong.
Rosenfeld is the director of Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning for Social Good (ML4SG) program. He has held educational leadership positions in a variety of programs, including the M.S. in computational finance (1997–1999), graduate computational and statistical learning (2001–2003), M.S. in machine learning (2017) and undergraduate minor in machine learning.
Rosenfeld was appointed Head of Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department in 2018.
Research
Rosenfeld's research interests include epidemiological forecasting, information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D), and machine learning for social good.
Epidemiological forecasting
Rosenfeld is a world expert in epidemiological forecasting. He founded and directs the Delphi research group, which has won most of the epidemiological forecasting challenges organized by the U.S. CDC and other U.S. government agencies. In December 2016, the CDC named his group the "Most Accurate Forecaster" for 2015–2016, and in October 2017, the Delphi group's two systems took the top two spots in the 2016-2017 flu forecasting challenge. The CDC recognized Rosenfeld's Delphi group at Carnegie Mellon University as having contributed the most accurate national-, regional-, and state-level influenz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performan | is an action arcade video game developed by Toaplan and published exclusively in Japan by Data East in April 1985. In the game, players assume the role of the titular robot in order to defeat enemies across multiple stages. The title is notable for being created by most of the same team that previously worked on several projects at Orca and Crux before both companies declared bankruptcy, after which a group of employees from the two gaming divisions would go on to form Toaplan as a result, as well as being one of the few titles by Toaplan that has not received any official port to home consoles.
Gameplay
Performan is an action game where the players control the on-screen protagonist from a top-down perspective, where the main objective on each screen is to eliminate enemies in order to progress further, while an intermission animation plays between some stages. Getting hit by an enemy will result in losing a live and once all lives are lost, the game is over unless the players insert more credits into the arcade machine to continue playing.
The player controls the robot with a four-way joystick and two buttons to attack and dig. Players can dive into the ground to avoid enemies that can also perform the same action to chase the player character. Players can also attack enemies by throwing boomerangs, which can trigger the "meca-stones" placed on the playfield to explode and eliminating any enemy caught within its blast radius. Players can also trigger the meca-stones under the ground to eliminate enemies as well. Eliminating many enemies at once with an exploding meca-stone grants a determined number of points, which is also crucial for reaching high scores, though players can be paralyzed if the robot is caught with its blast radius. Meca-stones can also be pushed against enemies.
After exploding a meca-stone, a gift item is spawned and after picking up the last gift before completing a stage, a "P" icon appears at the center of the playfield that turns into a colored ball. Collecting four colored balls in a row grants an extra live. After blowing up a meca-stone with enemies nearby, a ghost appears and after catching it, turns the players invincible for a brief time period to defeat enemies.
Development and release
Performan was created by most of the same team that previously worked on several projects at Orca and Crux before both companies declared bankruptcy, after which a group of employees from the two gaming divisions would go on to form Toaplan and among them were composers Masahiro Yuge and Tatsuya Uemura, both of which recounted the project's development process and history between 1990 and 2012 through Japanese publications such as Gamest and Shooting Gameside. Both Yuge and Uemura stated that the game was designed by Kenichi Takano and that their development environment at the time of the title's creation was done in the bedroom of an apartment. Uemura worked on the sound design for the game while he still formed part of Crux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20S.%20Ebert | David S. Ebert is a computer scientist, holding the position of Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Purdue University.
Ebert's research focuses on computer graphics and visualization. Currently, he is the director of U.S. DHS Center of Excellence (COE) in Visual Analytics (VACCINE). and Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Education
He received his Ph.D., master, and bachelor degrees in Computer Science from Ohio State University in 1991, 1987, 1986 respectively.
Career
He joined Purdue University as an associate professor in 2000, was promoted to a full professor in 2006.
Publications
Ebert DS, Musgrave FK, Peachey D, Perlin K, Worley S. Texturing & modeling: a procedural approach. Morgan Kaufmann; 2003. Cited 1438 times according to Google Scholar
Zhu F, Bosch M, Woo I, Kim S, Boushey CJ, Ebert DS, Delp EJ. The use of mobile devices in aiding dietary assessment and evaluation. IEEE journal of selected topics in signal processing. 2010 May 27;4(4):756-66. Cited 311 times according to Google Scholar
References
External links
David Ebert's Homepage
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Ohio State University College of Engineering alumni
Purdue University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadenhead | Cadenhead is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
James Cadenhead (1858–1927), Scottish landscape and portrait painter
Rogers Cadenhead (born 1967), American computer book author and web publisher |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20depth%20parametrization | In computer vision, the inverse depth parametrization is a parametrization used in methods for 3D reconstruction from multiple images such as simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Given a point in 3D space observed by a monocular pinhole camera from multiple views, the inverse depth parametrization of the point's position is a 6D vector that encodes the optical centre of the camera when in first observed the point, and the position of the point along the ray passing through and .
Inverse depth parametrization generally improves numerical stability and allows to represent points with zero parallax. Moreover, the error associated to the observation of the point's position can be modelled with a Gaussian distribution when expressed in inverse depth. This is an important property required to apply methods, such as Kalman filters, that assume normality of the measurement error distribution. The major drawback is the larger memory consumption, since the dimensionality of the point's representation is doubled.
Definition
Given 3D point with world coordinates in a reference frame , observed from different views, the inverse depth parametrization of is given by:
where the first five components encode the camera pose in the first observation of the point, being the optical centre, the azimuth, the elevation angle, and the inverse depth of at the first observation.
References
Bibliography
Computer vision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT%20Sky%20Tower | The DDT Sky Tower is an unfinished office skyscraper in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Background
The DDT Sky Tower is a project of DataLand Inc. and is the first project of the company under its office spaces arm, DataLand Offices. The 60-storey building will stand on a land and will have a total leasable office space of reportedly the biggest in the Philippine office space industry as of mid-2019. The office spaces of the building will be divided into three zones: Low zone (16th to 27th floors), mid zone (28th zone) and high zone (43rd to 57th floors). Parking spaces is allocated to the building's 3rd to 13th floors and three basement levels with 1,122 parking slots above ground and 312 parking slots underground. The first two floors are allotted for retail space and the 14th floor will host a food court for the employees of the building's tenants.
The building has accreditation from the Philippine Economic Zone Authority and LEED certification is being aspired for the building.
Delay
On 2022, the construction of the DDT Sky Tower was delayed, because it stays on the 2nd or 3rd floor for many months. Soon, it was confirmed that it will become a mixed-use development called the 947 Sky Towers to be launched in 2023.
References
Buildings and structures in Quezon City
Buildings and structures under construction in Metro Manila
Skyscraper office buildings in Metro Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium%20%28malware%29 | Titanium is a very advanced backdoor malware APT, developed by PLATINUM, a cybercrime collective. The malware was uncovered by Kaspersky Lab and reported on 8 November 2019. According to Global Security Mag, "Titanium APT includes a complex sequence of dropping, downloading and installing stages, with deployment of a Trojan-backdoor at the final stage." Much of the sequence is hidden from detection in a sophisticated manner, including hiding data steganographically in a PNG image. In their announcement report, Kaspersky Lab concluded: "The Titanium APT has a very complicated infiltration scheme. It involves numerous steps and requires good coordination between all of them. In addition, none of the files in the file system can be detected as malicious due to the use of encryption and fileless technologies. One other feature that makes detection harder is the mimicking of well-known software. Regarding campaign activity, we have not detected any current activity [as of 8 November 2019] related to the Titanium APT."
See also
Serial over LAN
Timeline of notable computer viruses and worms
References
External links
Kaspersky Lab
Common trojan horse payloads
Cybercrime
Hacking in the 2010s
2019 in computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Scantlebury | Roger Anthony Scantlebury (born August 1936) is a British computer scientist who worked at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and later at Logica.
Scantlebury participated in pioneering work to develop packet switching and associated communication protocols at the NPL in the late 1960s. He proposed the use of the technology in the ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet, at the inaugural Symposium on Operating Systems Principles in 1967. During the 1970s, he was an active member of international working groups that developed concepts for the interconnection of computer networks.
Early life
Roger Scantlebury was born in Ealing in 1936.
Career
National Physical Laboratory
Scantlebury worked at the National Physical Laboratory in south-west London, in collaboration with the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC). His early work was on the Automatic Computing Engine and English Electric DEUCE computers.
Following this he worked with Donald Davies on his pioneering packet switching concepts. Scantlebury is one of the first people to describe the term protocol in a data-communications context in an April 1967 memorandum entitled "A Protocol for Use in the NPL Data Communications Network" written with Keith Bartlett. In October 1967, he attended the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles in the United States, where he gave an exposition of packet-switching, developed at NPL. Also attending the conference was Larry Roberts, from the ARPA; this was the first time that Larry Roberts had heard of packet switching. Scantlebury persuaded Roberts and other American engineers to incorporate the concept into the design for the ARPANET.
Subsequently he worked on development of the NPL Data Communications Network. He was seconded to the Post Office Telecommunications in 1969, participating in a data communications study and supervising four data communications-related research contracts. This research team developed the alternating bit protocol (ABP).
Along with Donald Davies and Derek Barber he participated in the International Networking Working Group (INWG) from 1972, initially chaired by Vint Cerf. He was acknowledged by Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf in their seminal 1974 paper on internetworking, "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication", and he co-authored the standard agreed by the INWG in 1975, "Proposal for an international end to end protocol".
Later, as head of the data networks group within the Computer Science Division, he was responsible for the UK technical contribution to the European Informatics Network, a datagram network linking CERN, the French research centre INRIA and the UK’s National Physical Laboratory.
Logica
He joined Logica in 1977 in their Communications Division, where he worked on the CCITT (ITU-T) X.25 protocol and with the formation of the Euronet, a virtual circuit network using X.25. He moved to the Finance Division in 1981.
Personal life
He married Christine Appleby in 1958 in Middlesex; they had two |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y.1731 | Y.1731 is an international standard that defines Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) functions and mechanisms for Ethernet-based networks.
History
The standard was first developed in 2006 by the Standardization Sector of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) in ITU-T Study Group 13, publishing the original version, as well as a revised version in 2008. From 2010 revisions are done in Study Group 15, beginning with an amendment in 2010. Further major revisions followed in 2011, 2013, and most recently 2015 (as well as a number of amendments).
Definitions
Y.1731 defines:
Maintenance domains, their constituent maintenance points, and the managed objects required to create and administer them
The relationship between maintenance domains and the services offered by VLAN-aware bridges and provider bridges
The protocols and procedures used by maintenance points to maintain and diagnose connectivity faults within a maintenance domain
Performance monitoring
References
ITU-T Y Series Recommendations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20in%20Bristol | Bristol is a city in South West England.
Radio
Bristol is homed to a number of local radio stations, the main being BBC Radio Bristol which is part of the BBC Local Radio network broadcasting on FM, an AM version did exist until it closed in 2016. Commercial stations include Heart (previously known as GWR and Radio West), Smooth (DAB), Kiss 101 (FM), Greatest Hits Radio Bristol & The South West (FM) and Hits Radio Bristol & The South West, which replaced Sam FM (Bristol) in December 2009. and Wire Radio, broadcasts online. Three community stations have been launched in the 21st century:BCfm, Ujima Radio, and Bradley Stoke Radio,
as well as two student radio stations, Hub Radio (University of the West of England) and Burst Radio (University of Bristol).
Urban radio projects such as the 1980s pirate, Savage Yet Tender and Dialect Radio (ceased October 2004) have proved to be more short-lived.
However, in February 2007, a unique online station, Radio Salaam Shalom was launched by a combined team of Muslim and Jewish volunteers allowing the two cultures to talk together and share their experiences.
In 2015 Bristol was chosen as a site for a small scale DAB trial, this trial has been successful and Ofcom plans to officially license a local DAB operator in 2020. It has allowed a number of small local and community radio stations to broadcast on DAB, and has even allowed some new stations to start up including Noods Radio.
Print Media
Bristol is the home of the regional morning newspaper, the Western Daily Press, local paper the Bristol Post (and its Friday supplement Bristol Post Weekend, which covers events listings in the city), and The Bristol Cable which specialises in investigative journalism with a quarterly print edition and website. A Bristol edition of Metro is distributed for free on buses and on the streets. The now-defunct local listings magazine, Venue, covered the city's live music, theatre and arts scenes. It survived a threat of closure in 2011, and is now published as a free monthly (jointly with lifestyle magazine Folio).
In 2003 several local publications reported Bristol the "smiling capital of Britain" due to a study being conducted by the BBC before Red Nose Day on 14 March. Psychology students from universities in the cities surveyed, found that 70 out of every 100 Bristolians returned a smile from Comic Relief researchers. This put Bristol first in their "smiles per hour" census, the table makes interesting reading with Londoners only returning a smile 18% of the time. Bristol comedian Tony Robinson said: "We do smile a lot in the city, but sometimes it is not really a smile - we are just a little bit constipated."
Bristol has a flourishing independent media scene, including The Bristolian, Bristle magazine and a local Indymedia website. The Spark is a magazine that was established in 1993 and is published quarterly. It covers the surging interest in all things green, ethical and complementary.
The Bristolian news sheet a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge%20distillation | In machine learning, knowledge distillation or model distillation is the process of transferring knowledge from a large model to a smaller one. While large models (such as very deep neural networks or ensembles of many models) have higher knowledge capacity than small models, this capacity might not be fully utilized. It can be just as computationally expensive to evaluate a model even if it utilizes little of its knowledge capacity. Knowledge distillation transfers knowledge from a large model to a smaller model without loss of validity. As smaller models are less expensive to evaluate, they can be deployed on less powerful hardware (such as a mobile device).
Knowledge distillation has been successfully used in several applications of machine learning such as object detection, acoustic models, and natural language processing.
Recently, it has also been introduced to graph neural networks applicable to non-grid data.
Concept of distillation
Transferring the knowledge from a large to a small model needs to somehow teach to the latter without loss of validity. If both models are trained on the same data, the small model may have insufficient capacity to learn a concise knowledge representation given the same computational resources and same data as the large model. However, some information about a concise knowledge representation is encoded in the pseudolikelihoods assigned to its output: when a model correctly predicts a class, it assigns a large value to the output variable corresponding to such class, and smaller values to the other output variables. The distribution of values among the outputs for a record provides information on how the large model represents knowledge. Therefore, the goal of economical deployment of a valid model can be achieved by training only the large model on the data, exploiting its better ability to learn concise knowledge representations, and then distilling such knowledge into the smaller model, that would not be able to learn it on its own, by training it to learn the soft output of the large model.
A first example of distilling an artificial neural network into another network dates back to 1992, when Juergen Schmidhuber compressed or collapsed a hierarchy of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) into a single RNN, by distilling a higher level chunker network into a lower level automatizer network. This facilitated downstream deep learning.
A related methodology to compress the knowledge of multiple models into a single neural network was called model compression in 2006. Compression was achieved by training a smaller model on large amounts of pseudo-data labelled by a higher-performing ensemble, optimising to match the logit of the compressed model to the logit of the ensemble. Knowledge distillation is a generalisation of such approach, introduced by Geoffrey Hinton et al. in 2015, in a preprint that formulated the concept and showed some results achieved in the task of image classification.
Knowledge d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Greaves | Deborah Mary Greaves (born March 1967) is a British engineer, Professor of Ocean Engineering and Head of the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at the University of Plymouth. In 2020 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Early life and education
Greaves studied civil engineering at the University of Bristol. She earned her bachelor's degree in 1988 and started work as a civil engineer. In 1992 Greaves returned to academia, and moved to St Edmund Hall, Oxford for her doctoral studies. Her doctoral research considered the numerical modelling of fluid flows, and she graduated in 1998.
Career
After earning her doctoral degree Greaves joined University College London as a lecturer in mechanical engineering. In 2002 Greaves joined the University of Bath as a lecturer in architecture and civil engineering. She was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. Here she investigated the impact of wind on fabric in an effort to design new materials to cover large open spaces.
In 2008 Greaves moved to the University of Plymouth. Greaves studies offshore renewable energy as well as creating numerical models of wave-structure interactions. At the University of Plymouth she serves as Head of School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics. Here she led the €2 million European Commission project Streamlining of Ocean Wave Farm Impacts Assessment (SOWFIA), which looked at the development of wave farms in European countries. SOWFIA considered several Wave Energy Converters in an attempt to improve expertise of large scale energy projects. An outcome of SOWFIA was a catalogue of wave energy test sites, as well as several workshops and reports on the environmental risks and benefits associated with the use of wave energy. She leads the Collaborative Computational Project in Wave Structure Interaction (CCP-WSI), a project which develops wave tank codes for tackling challenges that arise from complex wave-structure interactions.
Greaves is director of the Sustainable PowER GENeration and supply (Supergen) Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub, which researches several renewable energy technologies. Supergen ORE is a £9 million Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council project that looks at future challenges for renewable energy sources and looks at how the offshore energy distribution system will need to be transformed in the future. She had developed the University of Plymouth Coastal, Ocean and Sediment Transport (COAST) laboratory which looks at marine energy devices and environmental impact modelling.
Academic service
Greaves is the chair of the board of the Partnership for Research In Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE) and Directs the Supergen ORE Hub. She serves on the Carbon Trust Advisory Board She is a Fellow of the Women's Engineering Society and the Institution of Civil Engineers as well as serving as an expert advisor for the United Nations. She was shortlisted for the WISE Campaign Research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santosh%20Choubey | Santosh Choubey is an Indian social entrepreneur and educationalist. He founded the All India Society for Electronics and Computer Technology (AISECT) in 1985. He is chairman of AISECT and chancellor of the AISECT group of universities (AGU) along with being involved in various literary and cultural activities to promote Indian Hindi literature and art.
Early life and education
Born in 1955 in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, Santosh Choubey did his schooling from Government School Khandwa and completed his education with a bachelor's degree in electronics and telecommunication Engineering from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (NIT, Bhopal). Consequently, he also got selected into the Indian Engineering Services (1976) and the Indian Civil Services (1981). He made the decision of forgoing the civil services and pursuing his interest in the areas of Science and Technology and joined Bharat Electronics Limited (New Delhi). Later on, he worked with IDBI as a consultant in Bhopal.
Career
He founded All India Society for Electronics and Computer Technology (AISECT) in 1985. The organisation became a registered society in 1997. AISECT group operates in 28 states and 4 Union Territories. AISECT is involved in various sectors including education, skill development, financial inclusion, CSR implementation, universities, online service provider etc. Over the years under the direct supervision of Choubey, AISECT has established a network of 23,000+ service delivery centres across the country. These end mile service delivery centres provide most of the services of AISECT group in rural and semi-urban areas creating thousands of entrepreneurs and serving millions of citizens of the country.
AISECT initiatives
AISECT organized the AISECT Women Achievers Summit 2016 on the occasion of International Women’s Day, focussing on women’s entrepreneurship. According to Choubey, the organization has always encouraged women to be a part of the professional world and has actively supported women’s entrepreneurship ever since its launch three years ago. A large number of women entrepreneurs are a part of AISECT and are operating their centres successfully. Women constitute around 50 percent of the workforce at AISECT. AISECT plans to continue to empower women in the future. During the concluding session of the summit, film actress and theatre artist Tisca Chopra and Jayshree Kiyawat (director, National Rural Health Mission) felicitated some of the most successful women entrepreneurs of AISECT as well as prominent women achievers of Bhopal for their distinguished work.
AISECT Group of Universities
Choubey has established a number of educational institutions and universities mostly in rural areas. The first AISECT group of universities was established in 2006 at a village named Kota in the Bilaspur district of Naxal affected Chhattisgarh state. Named after the C V Raman the Dr. C.V. Raman University is the first private university in central India. The university h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsvue | Sportsvue was a regional sports network operating in Wisconsin. The premium cable channel showed telecasts of sporting events, principally those involving the Milwaukee Brewers and Milwaukee Bucks. Sportsvue operated from April 3, 1984 to February 2, 1985, closing in the middle of the Bucks season due to the losses incurred in its brief period of operation and inability to attract a sufficient subscriber base. Within days of Sportsvue's closure, the Bucks were put up for sale.
History
Pre-launch
In 1981, the Bucks and Brewers announced plans to launch a cable sports channel known as the Wisconsin All-Sports Network as a complement to the games carried by broadcast TV stations; the network would also carry collegiate sports events and would have launched as soon as 1983.
Plans for WASN were rolled into a larger and more ambitious effort of Group W Satellite Communications, known as "The Sports Network", in 1983. TSN (no relation to the Canadian network of the same name that launched in 1984) was to incorporate WASN, as well as Pro-Am Sports System in Detroit, Sportsvision in Chicago, Sonics Superchannel in the Pacific Northwest, and a new channel in the mid-Atlantic region (which Group W wound up launching as Home Team Sports in the spring of 1984). However, in October, Group W dropped its sports network plans, which had already delayed the channel from fall 1983 to a spring 1984 debut.
Becoming Sportsvue
The cable channel changed its name to Sportsvue in January 1984; at the same time, it announced a launch date of April 3. The network would carry the season opener between the Brewers and the Oakland Athletics—part of a slate of 67 baseball contests—as well as a Bucks game two days later; in addition, the network trumpeted that it lined up 40 Wisconsin Badgers hockey and basketball games (football telecasts were not an immediate possibility due to a then-pending Supreme Court case and the team being on probation for the 1984 season), 10 Marquette University athletic events (primarily basketball), and National Hockey League coverage. (No final deal had been worked out with the University of Wisconsin by July, and negotiations continued into September.)
Sportsvue was a financial venture of importance to both the Brewers and Bucks, who were strapped for cash and played in a small market; the clubs hoped that Sportsvue revenues would help the teams remain competitive. Jim Fitzgerald, who owned the Bucks, warned in January 1984 that, if the channel were not successful, there was a chance he could sell the franchise.
Distribution and subscriber problems
Cable distribution was sometimes hit-or-miss around the state, and by far unconsolidated, unlike the current-day situation where Spectrum has a near-monopoly in Wisconsin. For those who subscribed to participating cable systems around the state, the service cost $8 to $9 a month. Some systems, such as Group W Cable in La Crosse (which ultimately changed its mind) and Teltron in Wausau and Stevens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Top%20Christian%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%20the%202010s | The Top Christian Albums chart is a record chart compiled by Billboard magazine, ranking the week's best-performing Christian albums in the United States. Like the Billboard 200, the data is compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as on-demand streaming and digital sales of its individual tracks.
During the decade, 204 albums reached the top of the chart. Lauren Daigle was the most-successful artist of the decade. Three albums by her topped the chart for 71 weeks during the 2010s. Look Up Child (2018) topped the year end charts of 2018 and 2019, while How Can It Be (2015) was the most successful album of the decade.
Number-ones
Statistics
The following artists have spent at least ten weeks atop the chart, with at least three albums:
The following albums have spent at least ten weeks atop the chart throughout the decade:
See also
List of Billboard Christian Songs number ones of the 2010s
References
Notes
Footnotes
Christian Albums 2010s
United States Christian
Contemporary Christian Albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Tactical%20Data%20System | Marine Tactical Data System, commonly known as MTDS, was a mobile, ground based, aviation command and control system developed by the United States Marine Corps for the execution of anti-air warfare in support of the Fleet Marine Force (FMF). It was the Marine Corps' first semi-automated system capable of collecting, processing, computing and displaying aircraft surveillance data while also sharing that information with other participating units via tactical data link. The system was developed in the late 1950s/early 1960s when it was recognized that due to the speed, range and complexity of fighter aircraft operations effective air control and air defense demanded enhanced situational awareness.
MTDS was a spiral development of the United States Navy's Navy Tactical Data System (NTDS). At the time it was developed, it was the largest research and development project ever undertaken by the Marine Corps. Produced by Litton Systems Inc. in Van Nuys, California, MTDS took almost a decade to develop.
When fielded in September 1966, it was the premier air defense command and control system in the United States Military. It saw its widest operational use during the Vietnam War, where it was utilized to great effect controlling and deconflicting aircraft in the Northern portion of South Vietnam from July 1967 through to January 1971. MTDS remained the backbone of Marine Corps air defense operations until it was replaced by the AN/TYQ-23 Tactical Air Operations Module in the early 1990s.
Background
Marine Corps Air Warning Program
The Marine Corps’ air warning program was developed during World War II to provide early warning and fighter control for Marine Corps forces ashore during amphibious operations. Through the 1950s Marine Corps air defense equipment and tactics continued to rely on manual plotting of air tracks based on voice calls from ground control intercept (GCI) controllers. By the mid-1950s, early warning, fighter control, and ground controlled intercept (GCI) were performed by the Marine Air Control Squadrons as part of Marine Aviation.
There were three MACS assigned to each Marine Amphibious Force. These squadrons provided air defense command and control centers known as Counter Air Operations Centers (CAOC) that relied on Marines to manually plot aircraft tracks on a large map based on voice or telephone calls from radar operators. Controllers manually calculated intercepts using vectors, headings, and speed.
Precursor systems and early development
In 1944, the British Air Force installed analog computers at Chain Home stations in order to automatically convert radar plots into map locations. After the war, the Royal Navy began to develop a command and control system known as the Comprehensive Display System (CDS) which further allowed operators the ability to assign identifications to objects on their radar screens. This made it easier for operators to vector friendly fighters onto intercept courses during ground cont |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20consistency | In image registration, inverse consistency measures the consistency of mappings between images produced by a registration algorithm. The inverse consistency error, introduced by Christiansen and Johnson in 2001, quantifies the distance between the composition of the mappings from each image to the other, produced by the registration procedure, and the identity function, and is used as a regularisation constraint in the loss function of many registration algorithms to enforce consistent mappings. Inverse consistency is necessary for good image registration but it is not sufficient, since a mapping can be perfectly consistent but not register the images at all.
Definition
Image registration is the process of establishing a common coordinate system between two images, and given two images
registering a source image to a target image consists of determining a transformation that maps points from the target space to the source space. An ideal registration algorithm should not be sensitive to which image in the pair is used as source or target, and the registration operator should be antisymmetric such that the mappings
produced when registering to and to respectively should be the inverse of each other, i.e. and or, equivalently, and , where denotes the function composition operator.
Real algorithms are not perfect, and when swapping the role of source and target image in a registration problem the so obtained transformations are not the inverse of each other. Inverse consistency can be enforced by adding to the loss function of the registration a symmetric regularisation term that penalises inconsistent transformations
Inverse consistency can be used as a quality metric to evaluate image registration results. The inverse consistency error () measures the distance between the composition of the two transforms and the identity function, and it can be formulated in terms of both average () or maximum () over a region of interest of the image:
While inverse consistency is a necessary property of good registration algorithms, inverse consistency error alone is not a sufficient metric to evaluate the quality of image registration results, since a perfectly consistent mapping, with no other constraint, may be not even close to correctly register a pair of images.
References
External links
Inverse consistency error
Computer vision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faktograf.hr | Faktograf.hr is a Croatian fact-checking website set up in 2015 by the Croatian Journalists' Association and GONG. It is a member of the International Fact Checking Network and, since April 2019, part of Facebook's Third Party Fact Checking program. As of 2019, it is the only media organization in Croatia specialized in fact checking.
Faktograf.hr rates the accuracy of statements of Croatian public figures and media on a five-grade scale: Fakt ("Fact"), Tri kvarta fakta ("Three quarters of a fact"), Polufakt ("Half-fact"), Ni pola fakta ("Less than half of a fact"), and Ni F od fakta ("Not a fact").
History
In 2019, Faktograf partnered with Facebook as one of their European factcheckers. In May 2019 Faktograf, together with 18 other Fact-checking organizations, joined the International Fact-Checking Network's FactCheckEU, which provided factchecks on the European Union (EU) and on statements by European political figures. It also exposed hoaxes related to the EU elections. In December 2019, Faktograf uncovered the fact that the Croatian Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts had used money from EU subsidies to approve a grant of €13,200 [the equivalent of $14,500] for the portal Dnevno.hr, which had been proven to having repeatedly shared misinformation about the EU, spread fake news and even hate speech.
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Faktograf was falsely accused by social media users, online platforms and websites in Croatia, of "effectively censoring their opinions" shared on Facebook, when they were purely marking inaccurate content and misinformation and the decision whether to remove such content remained entirely with Facebook. In June 2020, Faktograf, together with several other southeast European organizations, founded the Viber group, a fact-checking network to expose viral COVID-19 misinformation.
In February 2021, Faktograf flagged a video as a hoax, in which an energy drink tested positive for Covid-19. The test was not carried out in accordance with instructions and therefore the result was not reliable. Faktograf had previously exposed a similar attempt by an Austrian politician using a different carbonated drink.
References
External links
Croatian websites
Fact-checking websites
2015 establishments in Croatia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory%20Yaroslavtsev | Grigory Yaroslavtsev is a Russian-American computer scientist. He is an assistant professor of computer science at George Mason University. Previously he was an assistant professor of computer science at Indiana University and the founding director of the Center for Algorithms and Machine Learning (CAML) at Indiana University.
Early education
Yaroslavtsev was born in St. Petersburg, then Leningrad, in 1987. Through 2002, Yaroslavtsev attended the St. Petersburg Classical Gymnasium, a gymnasium focused on the classics with core subjects of Latin and Ancient Greek, English, German, and mathematics. Yaroslavtsev next attended Physics and Technology School in St. Petersburg, a high school founded by Zhores Alferov, the recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics. There he was supported by a Siemens Fellowship and graduated in 2004. Yaroslavtsev entered the Physics and Technology Department at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University with the first result on the entry exam, and completed his B.S. in 2008.
In 2010, Yaroslavtsev received his M.S. from St. Petersburg Academic University as the first student in a theoretical computer science pilot program. The pilot program was founded by faculty at the St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences. Yaroslavtsev's masters thesis was supervised by Edward Hirsch, the Acting Head of the Laboratory of Mathematical Logic at the Steklov Institute.
Competitive programming
Yaroslavtsev was active through 2011 in international programming competitions. He was one of 24 world finalists in algorithms in the 2010 TopCoder Open competition and is a member of the TCO hall of fame. Yaroslavtsev also coached the high school team of the Physics and Technology School in 2009, when the team placed first in St. Petersburg.
Career
Yaroslavtsev completed his Ph.D. in computer science in three years in 2013 at Pennsylvania State University, advised by Sofya Raskhodnikova. His dissertation was titled Efficient Combinatorial Techniques in Sparsification, Summarization and Testing of Large Datasets. His research received the Best Graduate Research Award at the CSE Department. After an ICERM institute postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University, he joined the University of Pennsylvania in the first cohort of fellows at the Warren Center for Network and Data Science, founded by Michael Kearns.
In 2016, Yaroslavtsev joined the faculty at Indiana University in the Department of Computer Science and founded the Center for Algorithms and Machine Learning (CAML). He held a secondary appointment in the Department of Statistics at Indiana University. He received the Facebook Faculty Research Award in 2017.
Yaroslavtsev held a visiting position at the Alan Turing Institute in 2019. In 2021, he joined the faculty at George Mason University in the Department of Computer Science.
Yaroslavtsev is best known for his work on representation learning and optimization in AI, massively paralle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20National%20Highway%20Network%20Planning%20%282013%E2%80%932030%29 | China National Highway Network Planning (2013–2030) () is a plan by the Chinese Ministry of Transport to significantly expand the China National Highways network. The plan calls for the construction of of Expressways and of toll-free trunk highways. The expansion plans to connect every county in China by national trunk highway, and every city with a population over 200,000 by expressway. At the publication of the plans in 2013, there were still 18 such cities that lacked an expressway connection, as well as over 900 counties not connected by trunk highways. The cost of the plan is estimated at 4.7 trillion yuan ($767 billion).
A similar planning is active for connecting all provincial capitals and cities over 500,000 inhabitants by high speed railway.
Progress
In October 2020 the Chinese Ministry of Transport reported that 98.6% of cities over 200,000 population had been connected by expressways. By December 2020, Zhejiang and Shaanxi reported that all their county-level divisions were connected by expressway. By December 2022, all county-level divisions of Chongqing and Guangxi were connected to the expressway network.
See also
References
External links
National Highways in China
Expressways in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split%20screen%20%28computing%29 | Split screen is a display technique in computer graphics that consists of dividing graphics and/or text into adjacent (and possibly overlapping) parts, typically as two or four rectangular areas. This is done to allow the simultaneous presentation of (usually) related graphical and textual information on a computer display. TV sports used this presentation methodology in the 1960s for instant replay.
The original non-dynamic split screens differed from windowing systems in that the latter always allowed overlapping and freely movable parts of the screen (the "windows") to present related as well as unrelated application data to the user, while the former were strictly limited to fixed non-overlapping positions.
The split screen technique can also be used to run two instances of an application, possibly with another user interacting with the other instance.
In video games
The split screen feature is commonly used in non-networked, also known as couch co-op, video games with multiplayer options.
In its most easily understood form, a split screen for a multiplayer video game is an audiovisual output device (usually a standard television for video game consoles) where the display has been divided into 2-4 equally sized areas (depending on number of players) so that the players can explore different areas simultaneously without being close to each other. This has historically been remarkably popular on consoles, which until the 2000s did not have access to the Internet or any other network and is less common today with modern support for online console-to-console multiplayer.
History
Split screen gaming dates back to at least the 1970s, with games such Drag Race (1977) from Kee Games in the arcades being presented in this format. It has always been a common feature of two or more player home console and computer games too, with notable titles being Kikstart II for 8-bit systems, a number of 16-bit racing games (such as Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge and Road Rash II), and action/strategy games (such as Toejam & Earl and Lemmings ), all employing a vertical or horizontal screen split for two player games.
Xenophobe is notable as a three-way split screen arcade title, although on home platforms it was reduced to one or two screens. The addition of four controller ports on home consoles also ushered in more four-way split screen games, with Mario Kart 64 and Goldeneye 007 on the Nintendo 64 being two well known examples. In arcades, machines tended to move towards having a whole screen for each player, or multiple connected machines, for multiplayer. On home machines, especially in the first and third person shooter genres, multiplayer is now more common over a network or the internet rather than locally with split screen.
See also
Multiplayer video game
Screen tearing
Split screen (video production)
References
Computer graphics
User interface techniques
Video game terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Kirkpatrick | Scott Kirkpatrick is a computer scientist, and professor in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He has over 75,000 citations in the fields of: information appliances design, statistical physics, and distributed computing.
He initially worked at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center with Daniel Gelatt and Mario Cecchi researching computer design optimization. They argued for "simulated annealing" via the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm, whereas one can obtain iterative improvement to a fast cooling process by "defining appropriate temperatures and energies". Their research was published in Science and was an inflection point in quantum computing.
Selected research
Havlin, Shlomo, et al. "Challenges in network science: Applications to infrastructures, climate, social systems and economics." The European Physical Journal Special Topics 214.1 (2012): 273–293.
Schneider, Johannes, and Scott Kirkpatrick. Stochastic optimization. Springer Science & Business Media, 2007.
Carmi, Shai, et al. "A model of Internet topology using k-shell decomposition." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104.27 (2007): 11150–11154.
Kirkpatrick, Scott, C. Daniel Gelatt, and Mario P. Vecchi. "Optimization by simulated annealing." science 220.4598 (1983): 671–680.
Kirkpatrick, Scott. "Percolation and conduction." Reviews of modern physics 45.4 (1973): 574.
References
Computer scientists
Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20David%20Williams | Roy David Williams is a physicist and data scientist. He is a professor at Caltech and is most known for his work with the LIGO, and VOTable and VOEvent standards. He is a proponent of open data.
Selected research
Fox, Geoffrey C., Roy D. Williams, and Paul C. Messina. Parallel computing works!. Elsevier, 2014.
Giavalisco, M., et al. "The great observatories origins deep survey: initial results from optical and near-infrared imaging." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 600.2 (2004): L93.
Williams, Roy D. "Performance of dynamic load balancing algorithms for unstructured mesh calculations." Concurrency: Practice and experience 3.5 (1991): 457-481.
References
External links
California Institute of Technology faculty
Data scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least%20dangerous%20assumption | The least dangerous assumption is an inclusive approach to educational policy and pedagogy. It holds that, "in the absence of conclusive data, educational decisions should be based on assumptions which, if incorrect, will have the least dangerous effect on the student". This concept was coined in 1984 by Anne Donnellan, a researcher in special education. The principle is most closely associated with the areas of intellectual disability and communication disorder, although it can be applied more generally in the domain of learning and teaching, and beyond. In most contexts in which it is used, the principle holds that one should, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, presume competence, rather than non-competence, in others.
The "presumption of competence" can be regarded as the "least dangerous" assumption to make about a person because, the principle holds, it is less damaging to presume competence in another, and to be wrong, than it is to presume non-competence (incompetence) in another, and to be wrong. Take the example of a teacher who is uncertain about the extent to which a given student (with a severe communication impairment) understands what is said to them. The principle holds that it is less dangerous to assume that the student understands everything that is said, and to be wrong about that, than to assume that the student understands nothing that is said, and to be wrong in that direction. Under the latter assumption, the risk is that the teacher speaks too little to the student (or, in an extreme form of the argument, the teacher may not speak to the student at all). This is potentially 'dangerous' because it deprives the child of the known benefits of a language-rich environment. Under the former assumption the risk is that the teacher will speak too much to the student, which, advocates of this approach maintain, is less dangerous.
The principle comes into play in educational policy and teaching practice under conditions of uncertainty ("in the absence of conclusive data"). Debate on the usefulness of the principle revolves around the question of what constitutes "conclusive data" when it comes to making complex educational decisions.
See also
Dignity of risk
Social inclusion
References
Education policy
Educational environment
Pedagogy
Special education |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana%20Dahan | Mariana Dahan is a human rights activist and writer on the use of technology for human advancement. She is the founder of the World Identity Network, a non-profit promoting universal identity.
Early life and education
Dahan is a French citizen, but she was born and spend her childhood in the Soviet Union, on the border with the current territory of Ukraine. She has cited her upbringing as the driving motivation for her work promoting universal identity.
Dahan won several national competitions for French language and literature, which afforded her a scholarship to study in France and obtain citizenship. She first graduated from the Universite Paris-Dauphine with a master's degree in marketing and strategy and later earned two PhDs in management and economic sciences from Paris II and the ESCP Business School. While working on her PhD thesis, Dahan was invited as a visiting researcher to the MIT Sloan School of Management, spending a year within the System Dynamics Group led by Professor John Sterman. Both Professor Hazhir Rahmandad and Professor Damon Centola from MIT were on her PhD defense committee.
In 2011 she graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Program she pursued after taking maternity leave.
Career
Dahan began her career in 1998, working and consulting for mobile operators Orange and Vodafone in developed and developing countries.
Dahan joined the World Bank in 2009. In 2014, she launched the World Bank's Identification for Development (ID4D), an initiative that researches and funds digital identification programs. She was later promoted to the World Bank Senior Vice Presidency Office in charge of the Sustainable Development Goals agenda and the United Nations' relations and partnerships.
Dahan founded the non-governmental nonprofit organization World Identity Network (WIN) Foundation in 2017. The initiative was launched on Richard Branson's Necker Island during the annual Blockchain Summit. Shortly after its launch, WIN Foundation partnered with the United Nations on the pilot program “Blockchain for Humanity” to use blockchain technology to help fight child trafficking. WIN Foundation's work has been endorsed by actress Amber Heard, who has also helped promote the "Shadows in the Dark" documentary movie on Dahan's efforts to provide vulnerable populations with a proof of identity.
Dahan is a founding member of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) and a former blockchain fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based thinktank New America. In 2019, she was appointed as Identity Management Faculty at the Singularity University In 2020, Dahan became an Expert Member at the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs.
Philanthropy and charity work
Dahan was appointed Ambassador to the United Nations Global Goal 16 on identity, along with Amber Heard, during a ceremony organized by the #Togetherband campaign on the margins of the UNGA 2019. She is also a Global Ambassador for the UK-based nonprofit Hop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odette%20Abadi | Odette Abadi (née Rosenstock; 24 August 1914 – 29 July 1999) was a French physician, and member of the Resistance during World War II (WWII). She was a co-founder of the Réseau Marcel ("Marcel Network") which saved more than 500 Jewish children from death during The Holocaust. Although she was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo, she refused to divulge the locations of the hidden Jewish children and was sent to two concentration camps. After Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated in 1945, Abadi continued her profession as a doctor, with a focus on tuberculosis.
On 29 July 1999, Abadi died by suicide and the Les Enfants et Amis Abadi organisation was created the following year by one of the children she saved. In 2008, a square in Paris was named "Place Moussa et Odette Abadi" as a tribute to the couple's work. On 28 October 2017, the "Square Odette et Moussa Abadi" was inaugurated in Nice in recognition of their work.
Early life and education
Odette Rosenstock was born in Paris on 24 August 1914, to garment factory owners Camille and Marthe Rosenstock. She also grew up with a younger sister. Although born Jewish, her family did not practice the Jewish religion. Secretly, Rosenstock appreciated some of the principles and her Jewish background but hid her desires due to the Nazi movement in Germany. Concerned about injustice and the growth of Nazism, she began attending meetings and debates as a teenager. She graduated from high school in 1933 and began studying medicine.
Career
Physician and inspector
After qualifying as a doctor during the Spanish Civil War, Rosenstock went to the Pyrenees in 1938 to welcome and rescue Spanish Republican refugees from the war. She returned to Paris to finish her medical studies and earned a diploma in hygiene-prevention. The next year, she met Moussa Abadi, a fellow doctor, in December 1939 through a mutual friend. After the Nazi invasion of France, her father fled to the south. However her mother and younger sister Simone were captured by the Nazis before they could join him, and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp where they both died.
Rosenstock was appointed Medical Inspector of Social Security at the Evacuation Centers for Children of the Schools of the City of Paris, then Medical Inspector of Loiret Schools in Montargis. She stayed in these roles until October 1940, when anti-Jewish laws forced her out of a job. Unable to return to her former position, Rosenstock was hired as a temporary worker in Jewish dispensaries before they eventually closed and then as a midwife.
Réseau Marcel
During this time, Rosenstock remained in communication with Abadi who encouraged her to join him in Nice, where he had fled. In order to reach Nice, she swam across the river to get from Occupied France into the Free Zone. At the end of November 1942, she met up with refugee Moussa Abadi in Nice, and together they collected children left abandoned after their Jewish parents were arrested. She also worked for the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Danyluk | Andrea Pohoreckyj Danyluk (March 1, 1963 – March 3, 2022) was an American computer scientist and computer science educator. She was Mary A. and William Wirt Warren Professor of Computer Science at Williams College, and co-chair of the Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research of the Computing Research Association.
Education
Danyluk earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from Vassar College in 1984. She completed her Ph.D. in computer science at Columbia University in 1989. Her dissertation, Extraction and Use of Contextual Attributes for Theory Completion: An Integration of Explanation-Based and Similarity-Based Learning, concerned machine learning and was supervised by Kathleen McKeown.
Career
After working in industry for several years, Danyluk joined Williams College as an assistant professor in 1993. At Williams, she chaired the computer science department from 2005 to 2008, and the cognitive science program from 2005 to 2006. She was acting dean of the faculty from 2009 to 2010. She was Dennis A. Meenan '54 Third Century Professor of Computer Science at Williams College from 2012 to 2018, and was given the Mary A. and William Wirt Warren Professorship in 2018.
She also worked at Northeastern University as a visiting director and founding director of a master's program aimed at computer science students who studied other subjects as undergraduates. She was associated with Northeastern as a member of the advisory council of the Center for Inclusive Computing.
Danyluk was a proponent of event-driven programming in lower-level computer science education.
With Kim Bruce and Thomas Murtagh, she was the author of a textbook that follows this view, Java: An Eventful Approach (Prentice Hall, 2006).
Death
Andrea Danyluk, a resident of Williamstown, Massachusetts, died from pancreatic cancer on March 3, 2022, two days after her 59th birthday. She was survived by her husband, Andrew Danyluk, their two children, and her two siblings.
Recognition
The Computing Research Association gave Danyluk the 2022 A. Nico Habermann Award, posthumously.
References
External links
Home page
1963 births
2022 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer in Massachusetts
21st-century American women
American computer scientists
American women academics
American women computer scientists
Columbia University alumni
Vassar College alumni
Williams College faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring%20Place%20%28club%29 | Spring Place is a members only club with locations in New York and Beverly Hills. Membership is selective and aimed at those interested in networking with fellow members in adjacent industries. It was founded by Francesco Costa, Alessandro Cajrati Crivelli and Imad Izemrane in 2016.
The primary location is at 6 Saint Johns Ln. in New York's Tribeca neighborhood. The company operates two clubs, with their second location at 9800 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California.
History and ownership
Spring Place's first location opened in downtown Manhattan, as an extension of its sister company Spring Studios, a multimedia agency and event space. Their second location in Beverly Hills opened October 2018. For founders Francesco Costa, Alessandro Cajrati Crivelli and Imad Izemrane the idea of a physical hub was important as a way for young creatives in fashion, art, entertainment, design, and other adjoining industries, to meet and connect in major cities with brands and executives. Costa felt it necessary because these communities travel frequently to major cities.
After serving as CEO from 2016-2019, Costa was appointed co-chairman of Spring Place. Starting January 29, 2019, Olivier Lordonnois became the new chief executive officer, taking on responsibilities formerly handled by Costa.
Since opening, Spring Place has hosted IMG Models New York Fashion Week, Tribeca Film Festival, and the Independent Art Fair. The Club's members and founders include Gucci CEO Marco Bizzarri, President & CEO of the CFDA Steven Kolb, and Revolve CEO Michael Mente.
Membership club
Every member is vetted by the Spring Place Membership Committee. Both the New York City and Beverly Hills clubs host a series of events and cultural programming, ranging from performances to panel discussions, all led by creative professionals.
Coworking space
Spring Place's coworking space provides a collaborative workspace connecting work, leisure, and entertainment for a global community of entrepreneurs.
Architecture and design
Spring Place New York
As part of the 140,000 square foot Spring Studios, Spring Place comprises 64,000 square feet and its interiors were outfitted by Bluarch Architecture. In 2016, the newly opened Spring Place by Bluarch was the Best of the Year Winner for Bar/Lounge by Interior Design (magazine).
Spring Place Beverly Hills
Spring Place's Los Angeles club consists of 40,000 square feet in Beverly Hills, with a 6,500 square-foot rooftop. The space includes a coworking space, private offices, private dining rooms, open hot desks, lounges, showroom space, and phone booths. Interior design was led by wHY Architecture's founding partner and creative director Kulapat Yantrasast.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Poon | Alex Poon is an American transgender advocate.
Education and background
Poon graduated from Wellesley College (a women's college) in 2014, where he majored in computer science. He came out as transgender as a sophomore. He was the first out transgender person to win the annual hoop rolling race since it began in 1895. His mother, Helen Poon, also won when she was a senior at Wellesley in 1982.
Poon is Chinese-American and grew up in Virginia. He attended Holton-Arms School, an all-girls high school, where he was captain of the girls' swim team and the men's water polo team at a local all-boys school.
Career and advocacy
Poon has been interviewed for news stories about transgender students, including trans women and non-binary people, at women's colleges.
Poon works as a product manager at a technology company and does occasional public speaking and interviews about gender in the workplace. He talks about having been perceived as both a man and a woman in the workplace, giving him a unique perspective on discrimination and sexism. In 2019, he said that his work at IBM was undervalued before he transitioned to male, but afterwards, he was given "a seat at the table". He told The Washington Post that after his transition, "People now assume I have logic, advice and seniority. They look at me and assume I know the answer, even when I don't. I've been in meetings where everyone else in the room was a woman and more senior, yet I still got asked, 'Alex, what do you think? We thought you would know.'"
References
External links
Personal website
Wellesley College alumni
Transgender sportsmen
American transgender people
American LGBT people of Asian descent
Living people
LGBT people from Virginia
1992 births
21st-century American LGBT people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Nightingale | Project Nightingale is a data storage and processing project by Google Cloud and Ascension, a Catholic health care system comprising a chain of 2,600 hospitals, doctors' offices and other related facilities, in 21 states, with tens of millions of patient records available for processing health care data. Ascension is one of the largest health-care systems in the United States with comprehensive and specific health care information of millions who are part of its system. The project is Google's attempt to gain a foothold into the healthcare industry on a large scale. Amazon, Microsoft and Apple Inc. are also actively advancing into health care, but none of their business arrangements are equal in scope to Project Nightingale.
History
In early 2019, Ascension began talks with Google about developing health aggregation software to store and search medical records. The two companies signed a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) business associate agreement, which would allow Ascension to transfer patient data to Google Cloud, and would bar Google from using this data for purposes other than providing services to Ascension. Google first mentioned its project with Ascension in a July 2019 earnings call, which said the partnership was meant to "improve the healthcare experience and outcomes."
The Wall Street Journal first reported on "Project Nightingale" on November 11, 2019, writing that doctors and patients had not been notified of the project and that 150 Google employees had access to patient data. Google Health chief David Feinberg responded to the report in a blog post, saying all employees with access to protected health information went through medical ethics training and were approved by Ascension.
The project raised privacy fears because of Google's involvement in other privacy controversies, like DeepMind's medical data-sharing controversy and a lawsuit against Google and the University of Chicago Medical Center for allegedly processing identifying medical records. Google Cloud executive Tariq Shaukat wrote that patient data gathered from the project "cannot and will not be combined with any Google consumer data."
Types of data
The data sharing includes patient names and their dates of birth, along with doctor diagnoses, lab results, and hospitalization records, amounting to access to complete electronic health records. Also included in the data sharing are addresses of the patient, family members, allergies, immunizations, radiology scans, medications, and medical conditions. After the patient checks in to the doctor's office, or hospital, or senior center - the doctor and nurse examination results are entered into a computer and uploaded to Google's cloud servers. At this point, the system is then used to suggest treatment plans, recommend replacement or removal of a doctor from the patient's health-care team, and administer policies on narcotics. Ascension, the company sharing data with Google, may also vary th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Feron | Eric Marie Feron is a computer scientist and aerospace engineer. He has been the Dutton/Ducoffe Professor of Aerospace Software Engineering at Georgia Tech since 2005.
He taught at MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics from 1993 until his appointment at Georgia Tech. He obtained his BS from Ecole Polytechnique in 1989, his MS from Ecole Normale Suprieure in 1990, and PhD from Stanford University in 1994. His particular research foci are aerobatic control of unmanned aerial vehicles, multi-agent operations, including air traffic control systems and aerospace software system certification. One of his students at MIT was Selçuk Bayraktar, the designer of the Bayraktar TB2 drone.
Selected research
Frazzoli, Emilio, Munther A. Dahleh, and Eric Feron. "Maneuver-based motion planning for nonlinear systems with symmetries." IEEE Transactions on robotics 21.6 (2005): 1077–1091.
Frazzoli, Emilio, Munther A. Dahleh, and Eric Feron. "Real-time motion planning for agile autonomous vehicles." Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 25.1 (2002): 116–129.
Schouwenaars, Tom, et al. "Mixed integer programming for multi-vehicle path planning." 2001 European control conference (ECC). IEEE, 2001.
Boyd, Stephen, et al. Linear matrix inequalities in system and control theory. Vol. 15. Siam, 1994.
Published Books
Advances in Control System Technology for Aerospace Applications, Eric Feron (editor), 2016, Springer.
General Theory of Algebraic Equations, Translate by Eric Feron, 2006, Princeton University Press.
Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and Control Theory, Stephen Boyd, Laurent El Ghaoul, Eric Feron, 1994, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
References
Georgia Tech faculty
École Polytechnique alumni
École Normale Supérieure alumni
Stanford University alumni
French computer scientists
French aerospace engineers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybercrime%20Law%20No.%2063 | Law No. 63 of 2015 on Combating Information Technology Crimes, known as Cybercrime Law No. 63, is a law of Kuwait concerning various computer-related crimes. It came into effect on 12 January 2016.
The law was criticised by several international human rights organizations for its perceived limitations on freedom of expression and freedom of the press.
Background
Kuwait was once considered the most tolerant Gulf country in terms of freedom of speech, but changes to national security laws since the 2011 protests have changed this view. However, sections of the Kuwaiti constitution guarantee freedom of opinion and expression, such as article 36.
Implementation
On 16 June 2015, the law was approved by the National Assembly. It was published on 7 July 2015.
On 22 June 2015, Minister of Justice Yaqoub al-Sane stated the law's purpose was to "preserve social stability" and the law only intended to punish those who "publish pornography or offend others".
Law No. 63 of 2015 on Combating Information Technology Crimes
Law No. 63 contains 21 articles which set out the regulation of various online activities in Kuwait. Some of the articles include:
Article 4 – punishes with imprisonment or a fine anyone who "establishes a website or publishes or produces or prepares or creates or sends or stores information or data with a view to use, distribute or display to others via the Internet or an information technology device that would prejudice public morality or manages a place for this purpose".
Article 6 – punishes anyone that criticises the head of state, "shows contempt or disdain for the state constitution", "insults or demonstrates contempt for the judiciary or prejudices their integrity and impartiality", or "prejudices public morals, incites to breach public order or violate law even if a crime does not occur".
Article 7 – punishes, for up to ten years imprisonment, a number of acts listed in Article 28 of the 2006 Press and Publications Law, including “the publication of incitement to overthrow the regime in the country".
Article 13 – allows the government to "close shops or locations for a period of one year from the date on which any of the acts listed in the cybercrime law are committed and confiscate devices and software".
International response
In January 2016, a joint statement was released by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, Article 19, the Gulf Center for Human Rights, the International Service for Human Rights, and Reporters Without Borders. The statement raised concerns over articles 4, 6, and 7, which the groups believed could be "used to limit freedom of expression on the Internet, as well as to target online activists" and "individual human rights defenders". They called on the Kuwaiti authorities to repeal the selected articles of Law No. 63, as well as the entirety of the Press and Publications Law.
The Human Rights Watch argued that articles 6, 7, and 13 work as an "effective barrier to critical political speech over |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optelecom | Optelecom-NKF, Inc. is an American company that designs, manufactures, and markets high-bandwidth communications products, financial market data information, and business video systems.
History
The company was founded as Optelecom in 1974 by William Culver and Gordon Gould to build optical networking products utilizing fiber optic cable, optical amplifiers and lasers. Today, it develops fiber optic communications products and laser systems for commercial and military customers.
Previous to working together to form Optelecom, Culver was employed at IBM's Federal Systems Division, Quantum Electronics Department while Gould was working at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, (now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering). The two sought to focus on inventing and developing a new breakthrough technology for fiber optics for missile systems.”
The firm’s products were based on Gould's invention of the optical amplifier and the laser -- his acronym for ''light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.'' On the day of his invention, he realized its potential in telecommunications, writing in his journal: “Brief statement of properties and possible uses of the Laser…..Applications to communications, radar, etc. are obvious.”
In 1983, David R. Huber joined Culver and Gould at Optelecom, where he developed and patented optical amplifiers, optical multiplexed sensors, and a multiplexed optical data distribution system. Subsequently, Optelecom provided management, financial, and production assistance to Huber as a founding shareholder of Hydralite, Inc., later renamed Ciena Corp. At the launch of Ciena, Culver explained the goal as enabling a “single, hair-thin cable to carry many signals simultaneously, with each one being piggybacked on a different frequency of light.” In the long run," Culver said at the time, "the new venture could become a very significant portion of Optelecom's business."
In April 2005, Optelecom changed its name to Optelecom-NKF as part of its acquisition of NKF Electronics. Optelecom-NKF products (communication products that transport data, video, and audio over high-speed internet, ethernet, and fiber optic cables) are produced in an ISO-9001 certified facility and supported by a global network of technical professionals and distribution partners.
Optelecom-NKF was acquired by TKH Group N.V. of Haakbergent, Netherlands on January 27, 2011.
References
American companies established in 1974 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20R.%20Huber | David R. Huber is an American engineer specializing in optical networking. He is the holder and assignor of several patents in the field of optical transmission, distribution, and communication.
David R. Huber received his B. S. degree in physics from Eastern Oregon State College in 1974 and his PhD degree in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University in 1980. Upon graduation, he began working at the Martin Marietta Company in the area of space instrumentation. It was in 1982 when his career focus changed to fiber optics receivers, wavelength division fiber-optic communication systems, and fiber-optic bandwidth and dispersion measurements while employed at ITT Corporation.
Working at Optelecom from 1983 to 1988, Huber developed optical multiplexed sensors and a multiplexed fiber optic wideband data distribution system. In 1988, he joined General Instrument Corporation, where he patented several inventions, including Remote pumping for active optical devices, Method for producing a tunable erbium fiber laser, and wavelength selective coupler for high power optical communications. These technologies were core elements of the wave division multiplexing (“WDM”) system developed by Huber.
Huber returned to Optelecom in 1993 to develop optical networking systems by starting Hydralite Inc. (renamed Ciena Corp.) with Optelecom and entrepreneur Kevin Kimberlin. Their venture was chartered and the founders shares were issued to Huber, Kimberlin, and Optelecom on November 12, 1993. Optelecom took an ownership stake for providing management, financial, and production support for Ciena. Press coverage at that time noted that the firm would “specialize in equipment such as lasers, modulators, and amplifiers used to send data through fiber cables at very high rates." Referred to as wave division multiplexing, the new technology would, according to William H. Culver, Optelecom's chairman, let “a single, hair-thin cable carry many signals simultaneously, with each one being piggybacked on a different frequency of light." In June 1996, Ciena introduced the first dense WDM system.
After Ciena went public, Huber left to start another optical networking company, Corvis Corporation (renamed Broadwing Corporation) in 1997, where he served as Chairman of the Board until Corvis was acquired by Level 3 Communications, Inc. in 2007 for $1.4 billion.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American engineers
21st-century American engineers
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Brigham Young University alumni
20th-century American businesspeople
American company founders
Martin Marietta people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigore%20Ro%C8%99u | Grigore Roșu is a computer science professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a researcher in the
Information Trust Institute.
He is known for his contributions in runtime verification, the K framework,
matching logic,
and automated coinduction.
Biography
Roșu received a B.A. in Mathematics in 1995 and an M.S. in Fundamentals of Computing in 1996, both from the University of Bucharest, Romania, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2000 from the University of California at San Diego. Between 2000 and 2002 he was a research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. In 2002, he joined the department of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign as an assistant professor. He became an associate professor in 2008 and a full professor in 2014.
Awards
IEEE/ACM most influential paper of the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) award in 2016 (for an ASE 2001 paper)
Runtime Verification (RV) test of time award (for an RV 2001 paper)
ACM distinguished paper awards at ASE 2008, ASE 2016, and OOPSLA 2016
Best software science paper award at ETAPS 2002
NSF CAREER award in 2005
Ad AStra award in 2016
Contributions
Roșu coined the term "runtime verification" together with Havelund
as the name of a workshop
started in 2001, aiming at addressing problems at the boundary between formal verification and testing.
Roșu and his collaborators
introduced algorithms and techniques for
parametric property monitoring,
efficient monitor synthesis,
runtime predictive analysis,
and monitoring-oriented programming.
Roșu also founded Runtime Verification, Inc.,
a company aimed at commercializing runtime verification technology.
Roșu created and led the design and development of the K framework, which is an executable
semantic framework where programming languages,
type systems, and formal analysis tools are defined using configurations, computations, and rewrite rules.
Language tools such as interpreters,
virtual machines, compilers, symbolic execution and formal verification tools, are automatically or semi-automatically generated by the K framework.
Formal semantics of several known programming languages, such as C,
Java,
JavaScript,
Python,
and Ethereum Virtual Machine
are defined using the K framework.
Roșu introduced matching logic
as a foundation for the K framework and for programming languages,
specification, and verification. It is as expressive as first-order logic plus mathematical induction,
and uses a compact notation to capture, as syntactic sugar, several formal systems of critical importance, such as algebraic specification and initial algebra semantics, first-order logic with least fixed points,
typed or untyped lambda-calculi,
dependent type systems,
separation logic with recursive predicates, rewriting logic,
Hoare logic, temporal logics,
dynamic logic, and the modal μ-calculus.
Roșu's Ph.D. thesis proposed circular coinduction
as an automation of c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangyang-class%20minesweeper | Yangyang-class minesweeper (, ) is a ship class of minesweepers currently in service on the Republic of Korea Navy.
Its main missions are gathering data of ports in the Korean region, and searching naval mine and minesweeping, in wartime. They sometimes used at finding and recovering North Korean missiles, by using Variable Depth Sonar to detect missile fragments.
Ongjin, second ship of the class, is famous for finding the stern of ROKS Cheonan at the site of the ROKS Cheonan sinking.
History
At the Korean War, Korea did not have proper minesweeping equipment, and it was all about pulling naval mines out of fishing nets or blowing up floating mines with light machine guns. Therefore, North Korea inflicted massive damage by the naval mine. In the 1980s, Korea developed and used 6 Ganggyeong-class minehunters, which were the base of Yangyang-class ships.
In the 1990s, the Navy made an upgraded minehunter design, based on the Ganggyeong-class. The first ship was launched and commissioned in 1999, which was named Yangyang. Two more, Ongjin and Haenam, were launched a few years later. Compared to Ganggyeong-class, Yangyang-class ships improved minesweeping ability, and increased hull size.
Design
Yangyang-class ships are long, wide. They are equipped with Multi-purpose machine gun, a main gun, and Mine Disposal Vehicle (MDV). They use two Voith Schneider Propellers as propulsion, to control the ship more precisely. To perform minesweeping activities, mechanical/inductive minesweeping device and sonars are equipped.
Officially about 50 crew are boarding the ship.
Hull material
To protect the ship from magnetic mine, the ship's hull is made of fibre-reinforced plastic, which does not have a magnetic attraction, and lasts longer than commonly used material. It also minimized metallic equipment to tightly control the magnetic material inside the ship. Steel objects that are brought into the ship, like canned food, are heavily restricted and strictly controlled.
Naming
The naming of minesweeper ships is taken from the names of counties and towns adjacent to a naval base. For example, Yangyang is the name of Yangyang County, Gangwon Province.
List of ships
See also
Ganggyeong-class minehunter
Wonsan-class minelayer
Nampo-class minelayer
References
Mine warfare vessels of the Republic of Korea Navy
Mine warfare vessel classes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augury%20%28company%29 | Augury is a technology company that produces hardware, artificial intelligence, and software that diagnose malfunctions in machinery.
History
Augury was founded in 2011 by Saar Yoskovitz, who currently serves as their CEO, and the company's Chief Technology Officer Gal Shaul. In 2015, the company received $7 million in investment from a Series A round of funding, in 2017, it received $17 million in venture funding, and in 2019, it received an investment of $25 million in a Series C venture capital round, bringing its investment total to $51 million. The company has offices in New York and Haifa, Israel.
In January 2019, Augury acquired Alluvium.
References
2011 establishments in New York City
Companies based in Haifa
Companies based in New York City
Technology companies of the United States
Technology companies established in 2011
2011 establishments in Israel
he:אוגורי סיסטמס |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20kernel%20version%20history | This article documents the version history of the Linux kernel. The Linux kernel is a free and open-source, monolithic, Unix-like operating system kernel. It was conceived and created in 1991 by Linus Torvalds.
Linux kernels have different support levels depending on the version. Usually, each stable version continues to backport bug fixes from the mainline until the next stable version is released. However, if a stable version has been designated as a long-term support (LTS) kernel, it will be maintained for an extra few years. After that, versions designated as Super-Long-Term Support (SLTS) will then be maintained by the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) for many more years.
Releases 6.x.y
Releases 5.x.y
Releases 4.x.y
Releases 3.x.y
The jump from 2.6.x to 3.x wasn't because of a breaking update, but rather the first release of a new versioning scheme introduced as a more convenient system.
Releases 2.6.x.y
Versions 2.6.16 and 2.6.27 of the Linux kernel were unofficially given long-term support (LTS), before a 2011 working group in the Linux Foundation started a formal long-term support initiative.
Releases up to 2.6.0
See also
Linux adoption
Linux kernel
History of Linux
Timeline of free and open-source software
References
External links
Official Linux kernel website
Active kernel releases, on the official Linux kernel website
Linux versions changelog, in Linux Kernel Newbies
Linux Kernel Version History: Consolidated list
Linux kernel
Software version histories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DATAIX | DATAIX is an Internet exchange network between telecom operators and content generators in Europe and Asia. According to the Internet Exchange Report by Hurricane Electric Internet Services, DATAIX is one of the largest networks in the world by the number of participants. Its peak traffic, the size of which exceeds 5,3 Tbit/s. The headquarters of the company is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
History
DATAIX was launched in 2009. The founders used their own money as investment. At the start, DATAIX purchased part of the fiber-optic network, and partly built it specifically for the project. Peering LLC, which owned the DATAIX network, was closely connected to the relatives of Pavel Durov: half-brother Mikhail Petrov, who worked at Selectel, and his mother Albina Durova (the latter owned 25.5% of the company from July 2012 to November 2013).
In 2013, a DATAIX point of presence was opened in Kyiv. DATAIX served the Ukrainian traffic of the VKontakte social network, with caching servers of the social network on the site. In the following years, DATAIX became a major player in the Ukrainian traffic market. In 2016, the largest telecommunications companies of the country Kyivstar and Ukrtelecom were connected to the DATAIX exchange point, and at that time up to 2 Tbit/s of traffic passed through it.
In 2015, the national operator of Moldova Moldtelecom was connected, becoming the fourth in the group of connected national operators (Ukrtelecom, Kazakhtelecom, and the National Traffic Exchange Center of Belarus). In the same year, Novatel, a member of Deutsche Telekom, joined the DATAIX network through a point in Frankfurt.
In 2016 DATAIX participants got the opportunity to establish a direct session with Hurricane Electric, the largest operator in the world in terms of the number of IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes. The maximum network load in 2016 was 2.2 Tbit/s.
In 2017, DATAIX officially entered the Euro-IX Internet exchange association, and also launched points of presence in Sweden (Stockholm) and Latvia (Riga).
In March 2018, it was announced that Global-IX and DATAIX are merging under the brand of the latter, but on the base of the GlobalNet infrastructure, which includes its own highway communication networks on the Stockholm-Helsinki-St. Petersburg-Moscow route. Companies are counting on the synergy effect of the GlobalNet MPLS network and the DATAIX traffic exchange point services.
In 2019, the number of PoPs in 7 countries increased from 28 to 34. Points of presence in Amsterdam, and Frankfurt am Main were added. As of December 2019, the total port capacity for clients is 59.431 Tbit/s. Another national operator, Uzbektelecom, has joined the DATAIX participants. In September 2020, the company launched a fiber-optic communication line along a short route along the M11 "Neva" expressway.
In March 2021, the IX DDoS Protection service was launched to protect participants of the DATAIX peer-to-peer network from DDoS. It is based on the IX Securi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Giesbrecht | Mark Giesbrecht is a Canadian computer scientist who is the 12th dean of the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics, starting from July 1, 2020. He was the Director of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada from July 2014 until June 2020.
Biography
Giesbrecht earned a PhD in computer science at the University of Toronto in 1993, under the supervision of Joachim von zur Gathen. He has been a professor at the University of Waterloo since 2001, following positions at the University of Manitoba (1994–98) and University of Western Ontario (1998–2001), as well as IBM Canada Ltd. (1991–93). He was the Director of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at Waterloo from July 2014 until June 2020. On July 1, 2020, he became the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo.
Research
Giesbrecht’s research is in computer algebra, where he has proved a number of fundamental results, including on the complexity of computing matrix normal forms, solving sparse diophantine linear systems, and non-commutative polynomial algebra. More recently he has been on the forefront of an optimization approach to symbolic-numeric algorithms for matrix polynomials.
Awards
As a member of the Cheriton School of Computer Science's Symbolic Computation Group, Giesbrecht shared the 2004 NSERC Synergy prize for innovation under the prize's small- and medium-sized companies category. In 2012 he was named an ACM Distinguished Scientist.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eff%20%28programming%20language%29 | Eff is a functional programming language similar in syntax to OCaml which integrates the functionality of algebraic effect handlers.
References
Programming languages created in 2012
OCaml programming language family
Functional languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futhark%20%28programming%20language%29 | Futhark is a functional data parallel array programming language originally developed at UCPH Department of Computer Science (DIKU) as part of the HIPERFIT project. It focuses on enabling data parallel programs written in a functional style to be executed with high performance on massively parallel hardware, in particular on graphics processing units (GPUs). Futhark is strongly inspired by NESL, and its implementation uses a variant of the flattening transformation, but imposes constraints on how parallelism can be expressed in order to enable more aggressive compiler optimisations. In particular, irregular nested data parallelism is not supported.
Overview
Futhark is a language in the ML family, with an indentation-insensitive syntax derived from OCaml, Standard ML, and Haskell. The type system is based on Hindley-Milner with a variety of extensions, such as uniqueness types and size-dependent types. Futhark is not intended as a general-purpose programming language for writing full applications, but is instead focused on writing computational "kernels" (not necessarily the same as a GPU kernel) which are then invoked from applications written in conventional languages.
Examples
Dot product
The following program computes the dot product of two vectors containing double-precision numbers.
def dotprod xs ys = f64.sum (map2 (*) xs ys))
It can also be equivalently written with explicit type annotations as follows.
def dotprod [n] (xs: [n]f64) (ys: [n]f64) : f64 = f64.sum (map2 (*) xs ys))
This makes the size-dependent types explicit: this function can only be invoked with two arrays of the same size, and the type checker will reject any program where this cannot be statically determined.
Matrix multiplication
The following program performs matrix multiplication, using the definition of dot product above.
def matmul [n][m][p] (A: [n][m]f64) (B: [m][p]f64) : [n][p]f64 =
map (\A_row ->
map (\B_col -> dotprod A_row B_col)
(transpose B))
A
Note how the types enforce that the function is only invoked with matrices of compatible size. Further, this is an example of nested data parallelism.
References
Functional languages
Parallel computing
Array programming languages
Dependently typed programming
Programming languages
Statically typed programming languages
Dependently typed languages
ML programming language family
Free compilers and interpreters
2014 software
Programming languages created in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Karate%20Kid%20Part%20II%3A%20The%20Computer%20Game | The Karate Kid Part II: The Computer Game is a fighting game based on the 1986 film The Karate Kid Part II. It was initially released for the Atari ST in 1986, and an Amiga port was published in 1987. It was published by Microdeal in Europe and the United States, and by Ozisoft in Australia.
Gameplay
The Karate Kid Part II is a fighting game. For much of the game, the player controls Daniel LaRusso, who faces off against various opponents in karate matches. The player can use a variety of attack moves, including roundhouse kicks and flying kicks. Some moves are more effective than others. The game includes two bonus levels played occasionally after fights. In one bonus level, the player controls Mr. Miyagi as he tries to catch a fly using chopsticks. In the other bonus level, Daniel must break blocks of ice. The game includes a two-player option.
Reception
The Karate Kid Part II received praise for its graphics, although some reviewers were critical of the small character designs. The sound was praised as well, while the music received positive and negative responses.
Francis Jago of Commodore User praised the game's loading sequence, and wrote that many of the film's sequences "have been faithfully recreated" for a game. Computer and Video Games praised the quick execution of the various attacks, stating that it put the game "in a slightly higher category than most other" beat 'em up games. Benn Dunnington of .info praised the game's joystick control, calling it natural and responsive. Duncan Evans of Popular Computing Weekly wrote that film-based games "often don't live up" to the source material, while stating that The Karate Kid Part II exceeded all expectations.
Author Jamie Lendino wrote in 2019 that the game had two benefits, stating that it was released at a time when there were "still precious few games available for the ST, and it was actually good" considering it was a film tie-in. Lendino praised the backdrops, sound effects, fluid animation and precise control.
References
External links
The Karate Kid Part II at Atari Mania
The Karate Kid Part II at Lemon Amiga
1986 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
Japan in non-Japanese culture
Karate video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
The Karate Kid (franchise) mass media
Video games based on films
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games set in Japan
Microdeal games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20India%20Society%20for%20Electronics%20and%20Computer%20Technology | All India Society for Electronics and Computer Technology (AISECT) is a social enterprise established in 1985 to take computer education to the rural and semi-urban masses. It was established by Santosh Choubey. The organisation now operates in 28 states and four union territories of India, serving millions of people mostly in rural and semi-urban areas through its 23,000+ end-mile service delivery centres.
History
The society was established by Santosh Choubey and a few other youths in 1985 when computers were new to India. Computers became more useful and popular over the years but the rural and semi-urban masses of India were being left out from India's economic and digital growth story. AISECT realising the need to bridge the ICT gap and started developing computer education content in regional languages, starting with Hindi. It started opening computer training centres in rural districts and blocks of Madhya Pradesh in the early nineties. After going through various reorganisations over the years, AISECT was officially registered as a society in the year 1997.
AISECT Group of University
Certainly, AISECT Group of Universities now proudly encompasses a network of six distinguished institutions, each contributing uniquely to the field of education.
Rabindranath Tagore University, Bhopal: This university stands as a beacon of comprehensive education in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, offering a wide array of programs across various disciplines. It's known for its commitment to holistic development and academic excellence.
Dr. C.V. Raman University, Bilaspur: Situated in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, this university has carved a niche for itself by providing top-quality education. It offers a diverse range of programs, catering to the needs and aspirations of students.
Dr. C.V. Raman University, Khandwa: Located in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, this university is another jewel in AISECT's educational crown. It's committed to nurturing talent and fostering academic growth in the region.
Dr. C.V. Raman University, Vaishali: Dr. C.V. Raman University in Vaishali, Bihar, has earned a reputation for its dedication to academic excellence. It plays a pivotal role in shaping the educational landscape of the region.
AISECT University, Jharkhand: Nestled in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, AISECT University is celebrated for its diverse range of programs spanning technology, management, humanities, and more. It's a testament to AISECT's commitment to providing students with a well-rounded education.
Scope Global Skills University: As Central India's first skill university, Scope Global Skills University brings a fresh dimension to education. Located in the heart of India, it is dedicated to providing students with skills and knowledge that directly align with industry demands, fostering a new generation of skilled professionals.
These six universities collectively represent AISECT's mission to empower students with knowledge, skills, and opportunities. Each institution ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20Sioussat | Helen Johnson Doyle Sioussat (February 11, 1902 - December 2, 1995) was a network executive in the early days of American television, serving as CBS radio's director of talks and public affairs from 1937 to 1958. She created, and was the host of, the first roundtable discussion program on television.
Early years
The daughter of Maurice Joseph Talleyrand Sioussat, she was born in Baltimore and was raised by her aunt after her mother's death when Sioussat was seven years old. She graduated from Western High School and Goucher College and then worked in a variety of business roles, including being a secretary, a dental assistant, a business manager, and an assistant to a treasurer. She also was a professional dancer for a year.
Broadcasting career
Sioussat entered broadcasting as an assistant to Phillips Lord, a producer of radio programs. One of approximately 200 applicants, she admitted that she did not like radio, knew nothing about the medium, and did not own a radio receiver. She balked at Lord's initial salary offer of $50 per week, saying that she wanted more "because it's going to be much harder for me to do it than one of these other people." By the time she reached her home, Lord was calling with an offer of $65 per week. She initially managed Lord's Washington office, gathering official information for his G-Men program. After that program was canceled, she was transferred to New York and was put in charge of all of the Lord programs, which included Gang Busters, Mr. District Attorney, and Seth Parker. In addition to her other duties, she selected members of casts, directed rehearsals, and wrote and revised scripts.
In 1936, Edward R. Murrow, director of talks at CBS hired Sioussat to be his assistant. The following year, she replaced Murrow when he left that post to go to London. After a simultaneous realignment of duties at the network, she became responsible for all CBS non-commercial public affairs programs. Sioussat helped to formulate policies under the new setup, including fairness in granting air time to those who sought it. Her duties also included editing Talks, a quarterly digest published by CBS. Acceptance did not come easily in the male-dominated atmosphere that existed then. A vice president refused to authorize letterhead and business cards showing her as department head until the CBS legal department overruled him. When a male assistant was hired, he began the job at a higher salary than hers. She received raises later, but that initial discrepancy rankled her.
Table Talk with Helen Sioussat was "the first question-and-answer discussion program on CBS." It was broadcast from a CBS-TV studio in Grand Central Station in 1941-1943 on experimental station W2XAB, and its format worked well enough that it was essentially copied in later talk programs.
Other professional activities
Sioussat was a co-founder of American Women in Radio and Television, an organization to support female workers in media. She also wrote the b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20Lee%20Fread | Danny Lee Fread (July 17, 1939 - February 5, 2009) was an American hydraulic engineer and Senior Research Hydrologist, best known for his computer-based mathematical simulation programs for rainfall and runoff to forecast the flow of flooding rivers and dam failures.
Early life and education
Danny Fread was born on July 17, 1939, in Tuscola, IL, the son of Harold and Margaret E. Dyer Fread. Danny graduated from Lovington High School, in Lovington, Illinois.
He began his undergraduate studies at Carthage College, in Carthage, IL, where he studied liberal arts and excelled in track and field as well as basketball. Danny set a school record for his javelin throw in 1959 and was reputedly the "team's best pole vaulter." and lettered in basketball, where he was known for his "deadly jump shot." Fread then transferred to the University of Missouri-Rolla, in Rolla, Missouri and received his B.S. in civil engineering in 1961. He ranked first in his graduating class.
Career
After completing his undergraduate degree, Danny Fread worked six years for Texaco, where he
was promoted to Senior Engineer, specializing in the design of gravity and pressurized piping systems. He then returned to University of Missouri-Rolla to complete his Ph.D. in civil engineering in 1971. His studies focused on hydraulics / hydrology / mathematics, and his research was centered on unsteady flow and numerical / experimental simulation of breached dams. After earning his degree, he became a research hydrologist with the National Weather Service, where he spent 29 years. Inspired by the tragedy of the failure of the Grand Teton Dam in 1976, he undertook research on the development of computer models to forecast the flow of flooding rivers and dam failures. His 1973 ASCE paper presented a conceptual model to alleviate flood damages due to overtopping failures of small earthfill dams. It discussed erosion patterns and the potential reduction in the reservoir release due base on a proposed erosion retarding layer.
During the 70's and 80's he personally formulated, coded, and tested mathematical simulation programs, including:
The DWOPER model simulates unsteady flows from rainfall runoff in river systems
The DAMBRK and SMPDBK models simulate unsteady flows from breached dams in a single river
BREACH simulates the erosive formation of breaches in earthen dams
FLDWAV is an improved simulation model of unsteady flows from rainfall-runoff and from breached
dams in a single river or network of rivers.
These models have been utilized for unsteady river flow modeling by Federal and State Agencies, as well as private agencies and consulting firms across the United States and Canada and over 20 countries worldwide. Dr. Fread taught numerous training workshops; authored 50 and co-authored 42 professional scientific papers; and contributed chapters to four books including the Handbook of Hydrology. He was also a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. His career culminate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20Start | Critical Start is a cybersecurity company based in Plano, Texas, with offices across the United States. The company provides managed detection and response services, endpoint security, threat intelligence, penetration testing, risk assessments, and incident response.
History
Critical Start was founded in 2012 by former RSA Security executive Rob Davis, as a response to nation-state attacks that occurred with cybersecurity organizations RSA, Bit9, and others in 2011.
Critical Start announced in March 2018 an agreement to acquire Advanced Threat Analytics, a next-generation security analytics platform, to leverage its Zero-Trust Analytics Platform. As a part of the agreement, Critical Start acquired its native iOS and Android mobile security operations center application.
In August 2019, Critical Start published its second annual research survey reporting that security operations center analysts face an "overwhelming number of alerts each day that are taking longer to investigate". According to an article featured on MSSP Alert, the report surveyed security operations center professionals across enterprises managed security service providers, and managed detection and response providers to evaluate the state of incident response within security operations centers from a variety of perspectives, including alert volume and management, business models, customer communications as well as security operations center analyst training and turnover.
The survey found that more than 8 out of 10 security operations center analysts reported that their security operations centers had experienced between 10 percent and 50 percent analyst churn in the past year. Additionally, 70 percent of respondents investigate more than 10 alerts each day – up from 45 percent the previous year, while 78 percent state that it takes over 10 minutes to investigate each alert, which is up from 64 percent the previous year.
Critical Start revealed later that month that they would be expanding to a channel-driven model along with the expansion of the company’s national distributors and network of value-added resellers.
Funding
In June 2019, Bregal Sagemount, a growth equity firm, invested $40 million as part of the company’s first outside investment. According to Dallas Morning News, the "investment helped accelerate its North American expansion" and partnerships with Microsoft, Splunk, Palo Alto Networks, Cylance, and Carbon Black, and to expand its market presence for the company's managed detection and response services – including new field offices in Los Angeles and New York City – to "serve enterprise customers and its network of channel partners."
DC Advisory served as the exclusive financial advisor to Critical Start. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
References
Computer security companies
Companies based in Plano, Texas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moustafa%20Youssef | Moustafa Youssef () is an Egyptian computer scientist who was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2019 for contributions to wireless location tracking technologies and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2019 for contributions to location tracking algorithms. He is the first and only ACM Fellow in the Middle East and Africa.
He is the founder and director of the Wireless Research Center, Egypt.
Early life and education
Moustafa Youssef was born in 1975, in Alexandria, Egypt. He received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer and Systems Engineering from Alexandria University before moving to the United States to complete his PhD at the University of Maryland at College Park, supervised by Ashok Agrawala.
Career
After completing his PhD in the United States, Youssef decided to return to Egypt, where he currently holds an appointment as professor at Alexandria University and The American University in Cairo. Since his return to Egypt, he went on sabbatical to different Egyptian universities including Nile University and Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology. He established the Wireless Research Center in 2010, which he is currently directing.
Since 2015, he has been appointed as a Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan. He has been also a regular Visiting Researcher at Google since 2016.
Research
Youssef's key work focuses on pervasive and mobile computing with a focus on location determination systems and algorithms. His Ph.D. thesis gave the design and implementation of the Horus WLAN location determination system. The Horus system is considered to be one of the earliest WiFi-based tracking systems and the first probabilistic scheme.
In 2007, he was the main author of the ACM MobiCom Vision/Challenges paper that introduced the concept of device-free localization (also known as sensor-less sensing and through-the-wall sensing), one of the still current hot topics in location tracking research. Traditional tracking techniques require attaching a device to the tracked entity. Device-free localization allows detecting, tracking, and identifying objects without any attachment, by analyzing their effect on the ambient wireless signals. This paradigm-shifting approach for localization opens the door for many novel applications such as intrusion detection, smart homes, and ubiquitous gesture-controlled IoT devices, among many others.
In 2012, he introduced a vision and system for leveraging crowdsourced phone sensor data to automatically construct indoor floorplans by a building’s everyday users. This provided a solution to one of the hurdles of ubiquitous indoor localization, but it also sparked follow-on work by others that build different layers of semantics, e.g. points of interest and place functionalities. This work won the 2013 COMESA Innovation Award.
In 2013, he introduced the DejaVu system for pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WT%20Social | WT.Social, also known as WikiTribune Social, WT or Trust Café, is a microblogging and social networking service on which users contribute to "subwikis". It was founded in October 2019 by Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales as an alternative to Facebook and Twitter. The service contains no advertisements and runs on donations. On launch it gained 400,000 registered users by 3 December 2019. Member growth was less rapid thereafter; the site had 508,980 users on 5 November 2022. In 2023 a beta for a successor version was launched, branded "Trust Café".
Creation and launch
Jimmy Wales created WT.Social (originally formatted as "WT:Social") after becoming frustrated with Facebook and Twitter for what he called their "clickbait nonsense". The format is meant to combat fake news by providing evidence-based news with links and clear sources. Users are able to edit and flag misleading links. WT.Social allows users to share links to news-sites with other users in "subwikis". Unlike its predecessor (WikiTribune, which Wales co-founded with Orit Kopel), WT.Social was not crowdfunded. Wales was quoted as wanting to "keep a tight rein on the costs". In October 2019, Wales launched the site. When a new user signed up they would be placed on a waiting list with thousands of others. To skip the list and gain access to the site, users either had to make a donation or share a link with friends. By November 6, the site had 25,000 users. That number was claimed to be 200,000 by mid-November and 400,000 by December 3. However, this rapid growth was not sustained; the number of users reported as of 5 November 2022 was 508,980.
Subsequent development
Quoted in the Stanford Social Innovation Review for Summer 2020, Wales said: "We're not doing a good job of actually exposing the best stuff on the platform. So that's kind of our next phase in evolution." This approach involved highlighting contributions by public figures.
In 2023, WT.Social launched WTS2 beta, a remake of WT.Social, which Wales said would become the defacto software for WT.Social. It is currently in beta and Wales attributed the lack of posts and activity on WT.Social's main platform due to users migrating to the new software. By July 2023 WTS2 beta had been branded "Trust Café", and was seen by a Tages Anzeiger journalist as of interest to people leaving Twitter, although more like Reddit in function, and as being set up as a community.
Software
As of launch, WT.Social runs on proprietary software. However, as of November 7, 2019, Wales stated that he had just learnt about ActivityPub and was looking into it. Later, Wales stated that the code would be released under GPLv3 in the future.
References
External links
Internet properties established in 2019
British social networking websites
Jimmy Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXNT | DXNT (96.5 FM) is a radio station owned and operated by Kaissar Broadcasting Network. Its studios and transmitter are located at 2nd Floor, Charm Bldg., JP Quijano St. cor. Pastrano St., Brgy. Poblacion, Oroquieta.
References
External links
DXNT FB Page
Radio stations in Misamis Occidental
Radio stations established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWFH | Radyo Bandera 97.7 Sweet FM (DWFH 97.7 MHz) is an FM station owned by Fairwaves Broadcasting Network and operated under an airtime lease agreement by 5K Broadcasting Network, Inc. Its studios and transmitter are located at Dumaguete Diversion Rd. cor. W. Rovira Rd., Purok Malinawon, Brgy. Camanjac, Dumaguete.
References
External links
Sweet FM Dumaguete FB Page
Radio stations in Dumaguete
Radio stations established in 2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Heritage%20Database | The National Heritage Database is an online database containing information about various types of heritage-listed places in Australia and around the world.
It is a searchable database which includes:
places in the World Heritage List;
places in the Australian National Heritage List;
places in the Commonwealth National Heritage List;
places in the Register of the National Estate (a non-statutory archived list);
places in the List of Overseas Places of Historic Significance to Australia; and
places that have ever been considered for, or are currently under consideration for, any one of these lists.
References
Heritage registers in Australia
Heritage registers
Online databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20M.%20Sanchez | Susan Marie Malila Sanchez (born 1959) is an American applied statistician and an expert in military applications of operations research, in agent-based simulation, and in data farming of simulation results. She is a professor of operations research at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Education
Sanchez is a graduate of Huron High School (Ann Arbor, Michigan), and earned a bachelor's degree in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan in 1981. She completed a Ph.D. in operations research at Cornell University in 1986, with a dissertation on Contributions to the Bernoulli Selection Problem supervised by Robert E. Bechhofer.
Career
She held a position as a faculty member in the College of Business and Public Administration at the University of Arizona from 1985 to 1992,
and in the School of Business Administration of the University of Missouri–St. Louis from 1993 to 2001.
However, after visiting the Naval Postgraduate School from 1999 to 2000 on sabbatical, she decided to move there as a professor. At the Naval Postgraduate School, she is a professor in the Operations Research Department, and is also affiliated with the Graduate School of Business & Public Policy. Since 2006, she has directed the Simulation Experiments & Efficient Design (SEED) Center for Data Farming at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Service
Sanchez chaired an Ad Hoc Committee on Women in Operations Research from 1993 to 1995 that led to the foundation of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Forum on Women in OR/MS. She was president of the Forum on Women in OR/MS in 2003, and president of the INFORMS College on Simulation from 2002 to 2004. She chaired the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics in Defense and Homeland Security in 2013.
Recognition
The INFORMS Military Applications Society gave Sanchez their Bernard Koopman Prize for outstanding work in military operations research in 2013. At the 2016 Winter Simulation Conference she was recognized as the 2016 "Titan of Simulation". She was elected to the 2017 class of Fellows of INFORMS, and was the 2018 winner of the INFORMS WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS.
References
External links
Home page
1959 births
Living people
American statisticians
Women statisticians
American operations researchers
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
Cornell University alumni
University of Arizona faculty
University of Missouri–St. Louis faculty
Naval Postgraduate School faculty
Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karahalios | Karahalios () is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Belinda Karahalios (born 1982), Canadian politician
Jim Karahalios, Canadian politician
Karrie Karahalios, American computer scientist
Zisis Karahalios (born 1996), Greek footballer
Greek-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Color%20Initiative | The European Color Initiative (ECI) is an expert group that is concerned with media-neutral reproduction of color data in digital publication systems. It was formed in June 1996 by German publishers Bauer, Burda, Gruner + Jahr and Springer in Hamburg.
ECI offers several ICC profiles to be downloaded for free from their website to improve color management across publishing houses. This includes their very own ECI-RGB as recommended working color space on screen and ECI-CMYK (Fogra 53) for printing processes. They also offer test charts for device characterization.
RGB
The ECI-RGB color space, sometimes written ECI RGB or eciRGB, is a standardized RGB color space using the D50 white point (CIE xy: 0.34567, 0.35850) and NTSC color primaries: red 0.67, 0.33; green 0.21, 0.71; blue 0.14, 0.08. Its wide gamut covers most mass printing technologies and all current display technologies. Version 1 was released in 1999 and a mostly compatible, updated version 2 was published in April 2007, which was later republished as international standard ISO 22028-4:2012.
CMYK
The ECI-CMYK color space, sometimes written ECI CMYK or eciCMYK, is a standardized CMYK color space for graphic data exchange in the print industry. It is equivalent to Fogra 53, often spelt FOGRA53, and is intended to overcome limitations of and thereby replace the ISO Coated CMYK exchange color space (version 2 = Fogra 39, version 3 = Fogra 51).
See also
ICC International Color Consortium
Fogra, Graphic Technology Research Association
IDEAlliance, International Digital Enterprise Alliance
WAN-IFRA, World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers
ROMM RGB (ISO 22028-2), reference output medium metric RGB colour image encoding, also known as Kodak ProPhoto RGB
RIMM RGB (ISO 22028-3), reference input medium metric RGB colour image encoding
ISO 12640-1:1997, Prepress digital data exchange — Part 1: CMYK standard colour image data (CMYK/SCID)
ISO 12647-2:2013 and ISO/AWI 12647-2 (under development), Process control for the production of half-tone colour separations, proof and production prints — Part 2: Offset lithographic processes for "ISO Coated"
ISO 16760:2014, Preparation and visualization of RGB images to be used in RGB-based graphics arts workflow
ISO 19302:2018, Colour conformity of printing workflows
References
External links
Official Website of the European Color Initiative
ECI working color spaces
Color
Electronic publishing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team%20neusta | Team neusta GmbH is a private holding of Carsten Meyer-Heder. It is a computer software company headquartered in Bremen, Northern Germany. Team neusta is one of the top-selling Internet companies in Germany. The holding owns 25 companies with several based in Germany, Toulouse, France, and Lachen, Switzerland. Team neusta employs around 1,100 people and around 500 freelancers.
In 2018 the holding had a transaction volume of c. 170 million euro. The CEO is Heinz Kierchhoff.
The company was founded by Carsten Meyer-Heder in 1993 as Neusta GmbH. Its first jobs came from the tourist company TUI and the software company Szymaniak. In March 2018, Meyer-Heder joined the conservative CDU and ran as candidate for his party for the office of the president of the Senate and mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen in the 2019 Bremen state election. He gained 26.7% and could not reach power.
Holdings
Because of business and tax reasons, team neusta runs 25 companies:
neusta GmbH
neusta aerospace GmbH
neusta communications GmbH
neusta consulting GmbH
neusta eastern Europe
neusta destination solutions GmbH
neusta enterprise services GmbH
neusta eTourism GmbH
neusta grafenstein GmbH
neusta identity & access management GmbH
neusta infomantis
neusta infrastructure services GmbH
neusta mobile solutions GmbH
neusta next GmbH
neusta portal services GmbH
neusta software development west GmbH
neusta sport portals GmbH
neusta SAS
neusta webservices GmbH
HEC GmbH
neusta experience
neusta marketing
eWerk GmbH
neusta forty-two
Kurswechsel Unternehmensberatung GmbH
neusta inspire GmbH
References
Companies based in Bremen (city)
German brands
1993 establishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDCalc | MDCalc is a free online medical reference for healthcare professionals that provides point-of-care clinical decision-support tools, including medical calculators, scoring systems, and algorithms. MDCalc is also a mobile and web app. The decision-support tools are based on published clinical research, and MDCalc’s content is written by physician authors.
History
MDCalc was founded by two emergency physicians, Graham Walker, MD, and Joseph Habboushe, MD, MBA, and provides over 500 medical calculators and other clinical decision-support tools.
The MDCalc.com website was launched in 2005. In 2016, MDCalc launched an iOS app, followed by an Android app in 2017. A 2017 survey estimated 65% of U.S. attending physicians and 79% of U.S. resident physicians use MDCalc regularly.
References
External links
Official Website
Medical websites
Health information technology companies
American medical websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerdata%20Limited | Emerdata Limited is a political consulting company based in London, formed in 2017 after filing for insolvency of Cambridge Analytica. Emerdata is accused by privacy advocates as its rebranded form and is headed by several of its executives.
Background
Former employees of Cambridge Analytica and SCL moved to successor firms, these companies dissolved with acquisition by holding company Emerdata Limited. The company now appears to be largely owned by Rebekah Mercer and Jennifer Mercer, according to Cambridge Analytica's bankruptcy filing in New York. Cambridge Analytica was before partially owned by their family, including their father Robert Mercer, a computer scientist who made contributions to brown clustering.
In July 2018 the Emerdata director was Jacquelyn James-Varga. Rebekah and Jennifer Mercer were appointed as directors of the company in the same year. The Federal Trade Commission of the United States has imposed to sue Cambridge Analytica after misusing data scraped from 87 million unwitting social media users. Emerdata Limited soon acquired the company after the news on misappropriation of digital assets was publicized.
Activities
The internal administrators (during the David Carroll case) of Emerdata Limited have been accused of misleading an adjudicator according to the High Court of England and Wales. Adjudicator Robert Hildyard, who had earlier granted Cambridge Analytica a legal motion to be put into administration, "wasn't told" that administrators of High Court (Vincent Green and Mark Newman of liquidator Crowe LLP) were, allegedly, not "independent" of Cambridge Analytica.
The High Court of Justice of England and Wales affirms Emerdata’s subsidiaries or daughter companies are the SCL Group Ltd and SCL Analytics Ltd. The trading subsidiaries of SCL Analytics Ltd are SCL Commercial Limited which provided data analysis to commercial customers, SCL Social Limited which provided campaign management and communications services to political customers, and SCL Elections Limited. In April 2019, 21% of Emerdata's shares were held by three individuals, Alexander Nix, Julian Wheatland and Nigel Oakes. Julian Wheatland is now its sole director.
See also
Cambridge Analytica
Aggregate IQ
SCL Group
Alexander Nix
Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal
BeLeave
The Great Hack, 2019 documentary film
References
Political consulting firms
2017 establishments in England
Companies based in London
Consulting firms established in 2017
Consulting firms of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantes%20tram-train | The Nantes tram-train () is a tram-train network operating in the French city of Nantes and the surrounding region.
Background
The Nantes to Châteaubriant railway line was part of a former Nantes to Rennes railway route which originally opened in 1877. The Nantes to Châteaubriant section closed to passenger traffic in 1980 and to freight in 2008. Approval to modernise this line received approval in 2009; and in 2014, the line reopened for exclusive use of the Nantes tram-train network, becoming the second line to operate after an existing line to Clisson opened in 2011, sharing track with mainline trains.
See also
Nantes tramway
Tram-train de l'ouest lyonnais
References
Tram transport in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeNet | LeNet is a convolutional neural network structure proposed by LeCun et al. in 1998,. In general, LeNet refers to LeNet-5 and is a simple convolutional neural network. Convolutional neural networks are a kind of feed-forward neural network whose artificial neurons can respond to a part of the surrounding cells in the coverage range and perform well in large-scale image processing.
Development history
LeNet-5 was one of the earliest convolutional neural networks and promoted the development of deep learning. Since 1988, after years of research and many successful iterations, the pioneering work has been named LeNet-5.
In 1989, Yann LeCun et al. at Bell Labs first applied the backpropagation algorithm to practical applications, and believed that the ability to learn network generalization could be greatly enhanced by providing constraints from the task's domain. He combined a convolutional neural network trained by backpropagation algorithms to read handwritten numbers and successfully applied it in identifying handwritten zip code numbers provided by the US Postal Service. This was the prototype of what later came to be called LeNet. In the same year, LeCun described a small handwritten digit recognition problem in another paper, and showed that even though the problem is linearly separable, single-layer networks exhibited poor generalization capabilities. When using shift-invariant feature detectors on a multi-layered, constrained network, the model could perform very well. He believed that these results proved that minimizing the number of free parameters in the neural network could enhance the generalization ability of the neural network.
In 1990, their paper described the application of backpropagation networks in handwritten digit recognition again. They only performed minimal preprocessing on the data, and the model was carefully designed for this task and it was highly constrained. The input data consisted of images, each containing a number, and the test results on the postal code digital data provided by the US Postal Service showed that the model had an error rate of only 1% and a rejection rate of about 9%.
Their research continued for the next four years, and in 1994 MNIST database was developed, for which LeNet-1 was too small, hence a new NN LeNet-4 was trained on it. A year later the AT&T Bell Labs collective introduced LeNet-5 and reviewed various methods on handwritten character recognition in paper, using standard handwritten digits to identify benchmark tasks. These models were compared and the results showed that the latest network outperformed other models. By 1998 Yann LeCun, Leon Bottou, Yoshua Bengio, and Patrick Haffner were able to provided examples of practical applications of neural networks, such as two systems for recognizing handwritten characters online and models that could read millions of checks per day.
The research achieved great success and aroused the interest of scholars in the study of neural networks. |
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